On the Monstrous and the Grotesque

"...arguing that the range of the phenomena that western thought has placed under the jurisdiction of these terms was anticipated in the two orders of deformation ('disproportion' and 'combination') implied by platonic metaphysics, and that behind this founding distinction lies a single concern: the fear of multiplicity within unity, of the many in the one."

Mark Dorian, in Word and Image, Vol. 16 No. 3, July 2000