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It isn't in my top ten with The Inner Room, The Stains, The School Friend, The Cicerones, Wood and others, but I do enjoy it, particularly the gauche sequences with the psychic. Aickman never wrote a poor story. Even a highly consistent weirdist like M. R. James had a few that didn't really work later on.
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“Absolutely candid, carefree, but straightforward speech becomes possible for the first time when one speaks of the highest." - Friedrich Schlegel
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Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
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There was a very good Louis Theroux documentary on the subject aired a few days ago.
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Your fall should be like the fall of mountains. But I was before mountains. I was in the beginning, and shall be forever. The first and the last. The world come full circle. I am not the wheel. I am the hand that turns the wheel. I am Time, the Destroyer. I was the wind and the stars before this. Before planets. Before heaven and hell. And when all is done, I will be wind again, to blow this world as dust back into endless space. To me the coming and going of Man is as nothing.
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Finally getting around to reading Lolita. Phenomenal.
A few underlined parcels: I had stolen the honey of a spasm without impairing the morals of a minor. Later, I heard a great banging of doors and other sounds coming from quaking caverns where the two rivals were having a ripping row. ...it had become quite a habit with me of not being too attentive to women lest they come toppling, bloodripe, into my cold lap. The corpuscles of Krause were entering the phase of frenzy. | |||||||||||
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I wish to read more works by Arthur Machen. I've only read "The Great God Pan." Recommendations are appreciated.
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If you are exclusively interested in his dark fiction then The Hill of Dreams, The White People, Novel of the Black Seal and Novel of the White Powder are essential. He has other works in this area that are decent, such as The Shining Pyramid, The Inmost Light and Change, but overall his horror/dark works are very few in number and his reputation as a horror writer isn't representative at all of his body of work. The Hill of Dreams isn't generally counted as a horror book, but it's so haunting and full of dark imagery that I don't discount it. It is one of the finest novels I have encountered and his masterpiece.
If you enjoy these and want to check out his other works which emphasise wonder and mute or exclude the terror element then I strongly recommend A Fragment of Life, The Secret Glory and the prose poems that comprise Ornaments in Jade. Pretty much everything he wrote in the 1890s is gold. After that his work suffered a steep decline in quality, although little of it is outright bad and instead just seems rambling and unfocused. The Secret Glory is his final work of genius. |
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