The gothic fly belongs to no single era. It hovers above the razor’s edge of aetiological and the eschatological; of death and resurrection; of the something and the nothing. Always already within the orbit of the symbolic, yet never within its snare, the common housefly—like the historiographical catachresis that is ‘the gothic’ itself—sets into motion and makes a mockery of epochal thought and artistic figuration." -- Shayne Legassie