R. von Pnaklendorf
Chymist
As I mentioned in “Recent Reading,” I’ve been reading the anthology Teatro Grottesco. I’m already on the third section, and I’ve just read the story of the same title.
I LOVED IT.
I couldn’t help but feel a kind of relief at seeing certain ideas that had been quietly ruminating in my mind somehow put into prose by Thomas Ligotti. When “Anima Mundi” is mentioned at the end, much like in Nethescurial, many things I’ve thought about—things that are, ultimately, nothing more than ramblings—suddenly made sense to me, as did what I call the “Zeitgeist.”
It’s fiction, I know. And yet, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something deeply personal of Thomas Ligotti himself in the narrator’s voice. I may be completely wrong, but I now understand why he surrounds himself with certain people while, at the same time, seeming as though he has nothing to do with them.
It’s a fascinating story. But it’s fiction, and even so, it leaves me absolutely chilled. I have a feeling that the third section of Teatro Grottesco is going to be the part I enjoy the most.
This story... damn. It even made me think of people like H. R. Giger, and of things that are perhaps even darker and more disturbing.
An incredible story, without a doubt.
I LOVED IT.
I couldn’t help but feel a kind of relief at seeing certain ideas that had been quietly ruminating in my mind somehow put into prose by Thomas Ligotti. When “Anima Mundi” is mentioned at the end, much like in Nethescurial, many things I’ve thought about—things that are, ultimately, nothing more than ramblings—suddenly made sense to me, as did what I call the “Zeitgeist.”
It’s fiction, I know. And yet, I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something deeply personal of Thomas Ligotti himself in the narrator’s voice. I may be completely wrong, but I now understand why he surrounds himself with certain people while, at the same time, seeming as though he has nothing to do with them.
It’s a fascinating story. But it’s fiction, and even so, it leaves me absolutely chilled. I have a feeling that the third section of Teatro Grottesco is going to be the part I enjoy the most.
This story... damn. It even made me think of people like H. R. Giger, and of things that are perhaps even darker and more disturbing.
An incredible story, without a doubt.
