I've seen things you people wouldn't believe

Momus traces the poignant line connecting Dr. Evil, Batty from Blade Runner, and T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland.

We know these people must die for their difference, but we are also fascinated by it. We are wedded to monoculture, but subtly disturbed by pluricide. And so, just before they die, evil characters representing “the unacceptable other” are given speeches which allow us to glimpse, simultaneously, how unlike us they are, and yet how like us, if only by the fact that they have had experiences, as we have too.

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