3,5 Watching the characters fondle a revenant’s portrait evoked a special type of fleshly “maternal care”: The spinal cord is hugged by a series of very protective “mothers” that envelop it. Collectively these mothers are known as the meninges. (Meningitis is an illness that causes inflammation of these layers). There’s three mothers: dura mater (“tough mother”- the dense, fibrous watchful mother that forms the outer
