Her fascination with terrorism approached Manson levels of grey, in which repulsion and fascination exist in equal measure.
"People are curious," says Rich. "There's a morbid fascination that exists in so many elements of culture … which makes it all the more of a spectacle".
The Story of God, a six-part National Geographic special that launches Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, lets Freeman explore an infinitely expansive subject with which he has long professed fascination: what exists out there beyond what we can tangibly identify through our five senses.
Whatever fascination once existed was long ago tempered by clarity, and sorrow.
Thus Richard III is almost wholly sinister, though there exists a fascination about him, an all but tragic ambiguity.
Partly due to ignorance, partly due to the glib talk, partly due to the narrative that comes with it, but chiefly through a morbid fascination that it even exists in this day and age.
The fascination is that it still exists in that totally bogus form".
"Limestone" questions the valuation of that which exists on a scale different from the body politics, the fascination with consciousness, and other abstractions.
Fascination with Egypt has existed for millennia, Isis temples in Greece being known by the 4th century bce.
While The Innocent appears to have little in common with London and the South-East beyond a fascination with bureaucratic structures, deeper similarities exist.
