Nemonymous
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PROFESSOR NOBODY'S LITTLE LECTURES ON SUPERNATURAL HORROR
I don't usually review non-fiction and I consider this entertaining and thought-provoking work to be non-fiction; arguably, as published in the 1980s, it is a precursor of CATHR.
Just a few quotes below that Nemonymous feels are worth quoting even while he gives a nod of the head towards his oldest monster of all, the one called The Intentional Fallacy:-
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"You see, even in a stronghold of our fellow beings we may be subject to abnormal fears that would land us in an asylum if we voiced them to another."
"Not even the solar brilliance of a summer day will harbor you from horror. For horror eats the light and digests it into darkness."
"So it is that supernatural horror is the product of a profoundly divided species of being. It is not the pastime of even our closest relations in the wholly natural world: we gained it, as part of our gloomy inheritance, when we became what we are."
"But one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that SPINS. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise."
"After all, is it not wondrous that we are allowed to be both witnesses and victims of the sepulchral pomp of wasting tissue?"
(An extract from my on-going review of the Penguin Classics collection.)
I don't usually review non-fiction and I consider this entertaining and thought-provoking work to be non-fiction; arguably, as published in the 1980s, it is a precursor of CATHR.
Just a few quotes below that Nemonymous feels are worth quoting even while he gives a nod of the head towards his oldest monster of all, the one called The Intentional Fallacy:-
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"You see, even in a stronghold of our fellow beings we may be subject to abnormal fears that would land us in an asylum if we voiced them to another."
"Not even the solar brilliance of a summer day will harbor you from horror. For horror eats the light and digests it into darkness."
"So it is that supernatural horror is the product of a profoundly divided species of being. It is not the pastime of even our closest relations in the wholly natural world: we gained it, as part of our gloomy inheritance, when we became what we are."
"But one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that SPINS. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise."
"After all, is it not wondrous that we are allowed to be both witnesses and victims of the sepulchral pomp of wasting tissue?"
(An extract from my on-going review of the Penguin Classics collection.)
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