Forever Autumn

[Nemonymous]

From my Real-Time Review of the VanderMeers’ THE WEIRD, a review posted HERE:
“The best Weird fiction can touch and tantalise you strangely, darkly, poignantly, humorously, grotesquely or with deathly finality, but, also, mellowly and fruitfully, because, from the very experience of reading it at all, one never quite reaches the winter beyond the autumn in the way that you once reached the autumn beyond the summer.”

From my review of PEEL BACK THE SKY by Stephen Bacon HERE:
<<Forever Autumn
“…there are no seasons any more – just one long endless constant.”
When, in 2011, I real-time reviewed the VanderMeers’ massive ‘The WEIRD’ book here, I came to the conclusion that the distilled core of its century’s worth of High Weird literature was, for me, a mathematical constant embodied by ’Forever Autumn’. I think I said this a few times explicitly in my equally MASSIVE real-time review. At that time, I had not read this story by Stephen Bacon, a number of whose stories would surely have been deserving of being included in that book. No greater compliment can I give his work than saying that. Meanwhile, this particular story, although not among his best, nevertheless makes me think for the first time that such post-virus scenarios are emblematic of a slipping and sliding of human standards since I was a child in the 1950s, towards a self-deceiving brain-numbness in authorities when trying to ’control’ the <<’soldiers’ that are us>>, a fact that yesterday’s Hillsborough findings show was already happening in the downward zombie-viral cycle as much as 23 years ago…only few of us remaining to recognise that inverted cone-spiral of verities… But that may only be because I’m well and truly within my own ‘Forever Autumn’ whereby all manner of clouded ’wool’ is being pulled over my eyes that I hope good imaginative fiction can still manage to peel off.>>

From my review of MORBID TALES by Quentin S Crisp HERE:
“I always relish dealing with Prince Autumn.”

‘The Last Balcony’ by me: The eternal last stand or simply CANDLE DREAMING?
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several references to the ‘Yellow Wallpaper’ story in my fiction
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Yellowish haze in Ligotti fiction and as a character called ‘Yellowish Haze’ in my ‘WEIRDTONGUE’ and as an avatar of one of my oldest internet friends.

[Piranesi]

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous

“The best Weird fiction can touch and tantalise you strangely, darkly, poignantly, humorously, grotesquely or with deathly finality, but, also, mellowly and fruitfully, because, from the very experience of reading it at all, one never quite reaches the winter beyond the autumn in the way that you once reached the autumn beyond the summer.”

Very beautifully said, Nemonymous!

[Nemonymous]

Quote Originally Posted by Piranesi

Quote Originally Posted by Nemonymous “The best Weird fiction can touch and tantalise you strangely, darkly, poignantly, humorously, grotesquely or with deathly finality, but, also, mellowly and fruitfully, because, from the very experience of reading it at all, one never quite reaches the winter beyond the autumn in the way that you once reached the autumn beyond the summer.” Very beautifully said, Nemonymous!

Thanks, Piranesi.

Autumnology or Aeontonomy – a new approach to a late life of mellow fruitfulness…and mists!

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Photo taken on my Autumn walk this morning near where I live:


Aeontonomy - Autumn Immortalis
"He was going for the aeon..." -- Rhys Hughes: at the end of 'The First Book of Classical Horror Stories', from his story about Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

[Nemonymous]

Below, in the distance, is the turbine-building crane contraption (seen for the first time here in 2008) that has been brought to land because of today’s approaching storm. This is taken from Clacton Pier and to the right of the crane you can just see a Martello Tower from the war.



Below are some more images I took today: