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Forum: Items Available 12-17-2023
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Posted By Piranesi
These books are looking for a new home

Mark Valentine: The Uncertainty of All Earthly Things. Zagava, 2018. SOLD.

John Howard & Mark Valentine: This World and That Other. Sarob Press, 2022.

Reggie Oliver: Virtue in Danger. A...
Forum: Personal 10-14-2023
Replies: 195
Views: 109,060
Posted By Piranesi
Re: I Just Finished Reading...

Thank you for another fine & enticing review. How does one get a copy Rick Harsch's The Skulls Of Istria?
Forum: Themed Quotations 10-19-2016
Replies: 348
Views: 129,013
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Unlabelled Passage Of The Day

"He had found (...) that there were certain things to be said in favour of drinking in the mornings. He had discovered, quite by accident, that it could be a fine thing, on a gray dismal morning – a...
Forum: Themed Quotations 06-28-2016
Replies: 781
Views: 365,902
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Pessimistic Passage of the Day...

William Weaver on encountering Alberto Moravia on his walks around Rome: "I would first, automatically, ask him how he was.

'Mi annoio,' he would usually reply, in his clipped, telegraphic way....
Forum: General Discussion 06-22-2016
Replies: 5
Views: 4,893
Posted By Piranesi
Re: African Weird Fiction

Two good and very weird short stories from Vandermeer & Vandermeer's The Weird: "The Complete Gentleman" by Tutuola and "Worlds That Flourish" by Ben Okri. The latter's novel In Arcadia - although...
Forum: Questions & Answers 06-22-2016
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Views: 4,701
Posted By Piranesi
"Humanity is divided into two main categories..." ?

Near the end of Boredom by Alberto Moravia (translated by Angus Davidson), the narrator recalls a remark he has once heard:

"Humanity is divided into two main categories; those who, when faced...
Forum: General Discussion 06-22-2016
Replies: 37
Views: 19,646
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Comic Writer Grant Morrison talks Ligotti and CATHR

In the notes (or "keys") to the collected edition of Nameless, Morrison writes: "Nameless gives voice to pessimist ideas and here I was particularly inspired by two key texts".

The first is Nihil...
Forum: Themed Quotations 04-05-2016
Replies: 348
Views: 129,013
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Unlabelled Passage Of The Day

He is beside us in every deepest action and speaks through us in every fateful announcement. There is no escaping him or his influence. His voice whispers suddenly in the night, his presence...
Forum: General Discussion 04-04-2016
Replies: 74
Views: 46,816
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Science Fiction Recommendations

Some early science-fiction stories:

Lucian: Vera historia – a whirlwind transports a manned ship to the Moon from where all earthly actions look comically and ridiculous: seen from above, that’s...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 03-24-2016
Replies: 6
Views: 5,638
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Inquiry into the Quality of Folio Society Editions

I own several - all acquired cheeply secondhand. Their imitations of 19th century publishers' bindings are sometimes embaressingly bad taste - too much faux gold decorations. But otherwise they're...
Forum: Musicians 03-23-2016
Replies: 56
Views: 37,238
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Bands You've Seen

Gira is visiting Copenhagen again? Thanks, I would've missed that if you hadn't mentioned it.

His solo concerts are always great, very intense. I believe I've heard him four or five times....
Forum: General Discussion 02-01-2016
Replies: 25
Views: 15,291
Posted By Piranesi
Re: David Bowie's BLACKSTAR

About halfway through the title track of ★, there’s a shift of narrator. It’s the verse that begins with “Something happened on the day he day died”. But the tempo quickly changes and a new voice...
Forum: General Discussion 02-01-2016
Replies: 2,364
Views: 930,148
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Recent Reading

Currently dipping into Black Water: The Flamingo Anthology of Fantastic Literature, edited by Alberto Manguel. Here’s a quote from the Foreword:

“Unlike tales of fantasy (...), fantastic...
Forum: General Discussion 01-30-2016
Replies: 74
Views: 46,816
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Science Fiction Recommendations

Some of the first fiction I read was science fiction. The school library had a small section of science fiction and the stories I loved most played out in some dehumanised society where everyone was...
Forum: Items Available 01-21-2016
Replies: 0
Views: 3,714
Posted By Piranesi
For sale: Oliver, Samuels, Strantzas

A ”Need-Shelf-Space-Sale”:

Virtue in Danger by Reggie Oliver (Zagava/Ex Occidente, 2013).

Written in Darkness by Mark Samuels (Egaeus Press, 2014. Includes postcard signed by the...
Forum: General Discussion 01-15-2016
Replies: 25
Views: 15,291
Posted By Piranesi
Re: David Bowie's BLACKSTAR

A few days ago, searching for a specific title by J. G. Ballard, I consulted this list - in vain. I haven't read anything by Ballard and was wondering where to begin when I thought of Bowie. Some of...
Forum: General Discussion 01-12-2016
Replies: 25
Views: 15,291
Posted By Piranesi
Re: David Bowie's BLACKSTAR

Thanks, qcrisp!

"Every man has a black star
A black star over his shoulder
And when a man sees his black star
He knows his time, his time has come"
Forum: Musicians 01-12-2016
Replies: 533
Views: 172,930
Posted By Piranesi
Re: The Saddest Music in the World

Lets' Dance in M Wards sad and frail version. Lets Dance M Ward - YouTube
Forum: General Discussion 01-11-2016
Replies: 25
Views: 15,291
Posted By Piranesi
Re: David Bowie's BLACKSTAR

I've loved the diverse music of his different personae since I was 10 (well, most of it) and the recent record is simply brilliant. I find it difficult to comprehend that Bowie has died. Why is it...
Forum: General Discussion 01-03-2016
Replies: 187
Views: 63,958
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Are socialism and antinatalism ideologically connected?

Ligotti on socialism - a couple of quotes from Born to Fear:

"These days I don’t mind being called a nihilist, because what people usually mean by this word is someone who is anti-life, and that...
Forum: General Discussion 11-21-2015
Replies: 25
Views: 15,291
Posted By Piranesi
Re: David Bowie's BLACKSTAR

"We were born upside down ...
Born the wrong way round"

Bowie’s lyrics are often oblique and so much the more attractive as objects of exegesis. The title track of the forthcoming album suggests...
Forum: Musicians 11-19-2015
Replies: 3,941
Views: 1,325,653
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Your favourite song at the moment..

David Bowie - Blackstar - YouTube
Forum: Off Topic 11-11-2015
Replies: 597
Views: 379,515
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Book Recommendations

”I yearn for the impossible. I am dying of the possible. This is my sickness. It is called the inability to breathe.”

Des Esseintes would love Karáseks A Gothic Soul, perhaps the zenith of the...
Forum: Ligotti News 10-30-2015
Replies: 11
Views: 11,083
Posted By Piranesi
Re: The New York Times Book Review of Ligotti's Penguin Classics Tome

“He writes like horror incarnate” - that sentence will make for a good and true panegyric blurb on future Ligotti books now that the Penguin Classics edition of Songs and Grimscribe has made “the...
Forum: Themed Quotations 08-19-2015
Replies: 781
Views: 365,902
Posted By Piranesi
Re: Pessimistic Passage of the Day...

"And I can't stand those who go about as if everything was just fine, as if life was a holiday, a dream, a theme park, when, to all intelligent people who have lived and experienced the real stuff of...
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