tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8596130511383580015..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: As literature, it is beneath contempt. - Kipling's puzzlesAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-29400837725860199132016-06-22T09:36:22.015-05:002016-06-22T09:36:22.015-05:00I'll have to try Ligotti. I had not heard of ...I'll have to try Ligotti. I had not heard of him until recently.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87957239404417677622016-06-21T18:14:30.655-05:002016-06-21T18:14:30.655-05:00Ligotti's masterful Nethescurial mixes the ...Ligotti's masterful Nethescurial mixes the 'abyss looks back at you' theme of Bathurst with 'the medium is the message [of evil]' theme of Sinister (in Nethescurial's case, the page and ink in which it's written) and Borges' death inside a dream theme from The South. <br /><br />"The people seated on these benches were all watching a tall, illuminated booth. It was the kind of booth used for puppet shows, with wild designs painted across the lower part and a curtained opening at the top. The curtains were now drawn back and two clownish creatures were twisting about in a glary light which emanated from inside the booth. They leaned and squawked and awkwardly batted each other with soft paddles... Suddenly they froze at the height of their battle; slowly they turned about and faced the audience. It seemed the puppets were looking directly at the place I was standing behind the last raw of benches. Their misshapen heads tilted, and their glassy eyes stared inside into mine." <br /><br />"Of course, we do need to keep a certain distance from such specters as Nethescurial, but this is usually provided by the medium of words as such, which ensnare all kinds of fantastic creatures before they can tear us body and soul... But we do want to get close enough to feel the foul breath of these beasts, or to see them as prehistoric leviathans circling about the tiny island on which we have taken refuge"<br /><br /><br />Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87725982191528392812016-06-17T12:48:51.163-05:002016-06-17T12:48:51.163-05:00Yes, a story of great delicacy.Yes, a story of great delicacy.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-46738628304397305742016-06-17T11:19:51.690-05:002016-06-17T11:19:51.690-05:00I don't know about Wireless or that magnificen...I don't know about Wireless or that magnificent horror story, Mrs. Bathurst (the inspiration for Sinister, says I), but "They" gets better with every re-read. "They" is the one of those Kipling stories that mixes craft and tenderness.Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.com