“Horror is the removal of masks” - Robert Bloch (author of Psycho)
But also the placing of them over your face... in some circumstances
Think how plug ugly this dude must have been to prefer to wear this onstage under all those hot lights...
It's one of NWBHM makeweights Samson, but I refuse to do the research to identify which member.
Was thinking it was a tad 'Cambridge Rapist mask' and thus congruent with the sexual politics of HM, but this other Samson cover suggests the executioner
But this is more than enough on Samson...
Rather, let's have some highbrow thoughts on masks
“A man's features, the bone structure and the tissue which covers it, are the product of a biological process; but his face he creates for himself. It is a statement of his habitual emotional attitude; the attitude which his desires need for fulfilment and which his fears demand for their protection of prying eyes. He wears it like a devil mask; a device to evoke in others the emotions complementary to his own. If he is afraid, then he must be feared; if he desires, then he must be desired. It is a screen to hide his mind's nakedness.”
"One thinks that one wants to be understood when one wants only to be half-understood. If a person really understands you, you fear him."
"It was because I feared him and could not understand him as he understood me that I hated him."
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