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Hades and Depth - The imagorrhea, or through-flow of images with a hint of unpalatability, in “Memory and Madness” evokes mythic impressions of a soul perpetually held in thrall unable to escape the Hell of sex, violence, madness, obsession, and addiction. Myth doesn’t ground; it opens. Depth is a metaphor without a base. The depth of the simplest image is fathomless. In the soul’s labyrinth we can never go deep enough. When we go deep, soul becomes involved. The same themes repeat endlessly rotating in a myriad of variations, in different octaves of outrage and screams. Plato said souls in Hades are incurable. Yet, Lydia Lunch somehow embodies the ability to intentionally transgress the boundaries - to go beyond the pale of convention. For this among other reasons, she is referred to as the “queen of the underground.” Like the Queen of the Underworld, Persephone, Lydia moves at will between the conscious and the unconscious depths - a foot in both the world of the living and world of the dead.