Runaway Future

The curious story of Peter Duffy has already been covered by most, including Gawker.com’s prestigious ‘Great Moments in Journalism’. Indeed, Duffy wrote about being visited and violated by a night demon, the full text available here, having since been removed from the Chronicle Herald website. In the next column, he discussed his situation with a priest who categorized it as internal temptations. Given the nature of the first column, is it safe to say the priest was referring to homosexual temptations? (one might even go as far as questioning whether a priest might know a bit more about homosexual temptations then your average man…). Spiritual butt sex notwithstanding, it ws probably a medical condition known as hypnagogia or more commonly sleep paralysis, where you are stuck between being asleep and being awake.

Anyway, something I found interesting was that before this particular column, Duffy wrote a criticism of the Herald for printing the word ‘fuck’ in its pages. Duffy found the word obscene and taboo, the common reaction to curse words (explained here in a Washington Post article on the origins of cursing, the Post unlike the Herald actually keeps old articles around…). Now, I have no issue with Duffy thinking the Herald shouldn’t print ‘fuck’ on its paper, but the fact that he opposes this and then a few weeks later turns around to ‘artistically’ describe his make-believe sexual encounter strike me as a little odd.

Regardless, this whole thing has me really questioning Peter Duffy and the editorial staff at the Chronicle Herald. He may have not been drilled in the ass, but he’s definitely a little screwed in the head, and so is the Herald for actually printing it.