The Mocking Plumage Of A Strange Season

[G. S. Carnivals]

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And it was to that moon we were forced to look for comfort when we awoke trembling in the night, overcome by the sense that another life was taking root within us, seeking its ultimate incarnation in the bodies we always dreamed were our own and inviting us into the depths of an extraordinary harvest. Certainly there was some relief when we began to discover, after many insecure hints and delvings, that the dreams were not a sickness restricted to solitary individuals or families but in fact were epidemic throughout the community. No longer were we required to disguise our uneasiness as we met on the streets under the luxuriant shadows of trees that would not cast off their gaudy foliage, the mocking plumage of a strange season. We had become a race of eccentrics and openly declared an array of curious whims and suspicions, at least while daylight allowed this audacity.       Thomas Ligotti - “The Shadow at the Bottom of the World” Added by: G. S. Carnivals on 11-22-2007 #223

[Dr. Bantham]

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[G. S. Carnivals]

Thank you, Dr. Bantham. This is the first time that a Ligotti quotation post has elicited a 2,000 word response!

[Dr. Bantham]

These are modified pictures I recently took while exiting a corn maze. It has become a tradition for the family to wander the stalks, though less return home each year.