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and everywhere around us the ghoulish news of 217 people perished at sea.
According to the Sunday Times , the cult's leader, a con man called Joseph di Mambro, had made her a "high priestess" in a ghoulish quasireligious ceremony with strong sexual undertones, and got her to pay nearly $10 million into a Swiss bank.
Danny Kaye once sang of "The little ones, the big ones, the sat-on-by-a-pig ones,/ The foolish ones that perch, and the ghoulish ones that lurch."
Among the elements of Lynch's self-plagiarism: an eerie soundtrack, creepy characters ( femmes fatales , scary thugs, ghoulish freak), and lots of tawdry sex.
Biographer Robert D. Richardson Jr. contends that by literally confronting death (ghoulish as it seems), Emerson was able to pull out of his funk and get back to the business of becoming a great American philosopher.