Is it a metaphor for our relationship to nature? Fuck off. Is Bear one of those 1970s books about growing out your armpit hair? Kind of, but not only. There is also something timeless to be written. Jokes about never-to-be-seen footage, enjoinments to hear every sentence in Werner Herzog’s voice. It perhaps contains a tie-in with The Revenant (2015), and an anecdote about the time your mother saw it in the cinema by mistake and texted: ‘The bear did not rape Leo as was reported.’ It perhaps contains a reference to the tame Instagram bear Stepan, whose duty it has somehow become to sensually embrace a variety of hot Russian models in fields. It involves the aforementioned cover art, 1970s plaid shirt feminism, the rediscovery of this book every two years by roving groups of content foragers, who must live on the phallic morels they find in the woods. There is a modern essay to be written about this work. The bear of the title looms over her shoulders, a Muppet designed to be sexual, smiling inside the dark cavern of his face and presumably doing her from behind. Her tits are perfect, like two drawers of a card catalogue. I am talking about the notorious mass market paperback of Marian Engel’s 1976 masterpiece, where the body of a softcore librarian is completely laid open to us, surrounded by flowing silk. “Anytime you can prevent more people from witnessing the kind of trauma that (was) endured, I think anybody would be happy with that result,” Bray said.T he old cover was better. Judge Chris Abel said the graphic nature of the video shared in court Wednesday contributed to his issuing of the sentence.Īs part of a plea deal, other charges Debord was facing were dropped. Marshall County District Attorney Everette Johnson said at the time that it was, “one of the most disturbing and offensive, the facts of this case as I’ve been involved in criminal law for a long time.” And what they’re doing to this victim, again it’s just awful.

“You know, it made your stomach churn watching these videos. “This is one case that was just physically repulsive,” Assistant Marshall County District Attorney and lead prosecutor Jennifer Bray said. Investigators told News 19 that a video was shared with community members through Facebook messenger, text messages, and e-mail. 2 Marshall County residents charged with sodomy, bestialityĪll charges stem from an incident that happened in Guntersville in 2020 involving Debord and 53-year-old Van Christopher Havis.

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