something grotesque has happened to it in the parturition from head to page

Madame Psychosis as the Death-Mother figure inclined over it, parturient and nude

a sort of signifying compendium of images of parturition

In any metaphor that linked writing with parturition, no, Richard wouldn't come out well. What were they, his novels? Not stillborn. More like those babies whom it was thought best to spirit away

mother's was a prolix and generally rather inelegant parturition