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“As I wandered along one street or another throughout that morning and into late afternoon, I recalled a specific street near the edge of town, a dead-end street where all the houses and the buildings seemed to have grown into one another, melding their diverse materials into a bizarre and jagged conglomerate of massive architectural proportions, its peaked roofs and soaring chimnied towers visibly swaying and audibly moaning even in the calm of an early summer twilight. I had thought that this was the absolute limit, only to find out at exactly the moment of having this thought that there was something further involved with this street, something that caused persons living in the area to repeat a special slogan or incantation to whomever would listen. When you hear the singing, they said, you will know it is time. These words were spoken, and I heard them myself, as if the persons uttering them were attempting to absolve or protect themselves in some way that was beyond any further explication. And whether or not one heard the singing, or had ever heard what was called the singing, and whether or not that obscure and unspeakable time ever came, or would ever come to those who arrived in that street with its houses and other buildings all mingled together and tumbling into the sky, there nevertheless remained within you the feeling that this was still the place - the town near the northern border - where you came to live and where you might believe you would be a permanent resident until either you chose to leave it or until you died, possibly by violent misadventure or some wasting disease, if not by your own hand.” |
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Nicole Cushing: "All Hear the Dark Gospel of Thomas Ligotti" |
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Jul 19, 2010 - 11:09 AM - by matt cardin
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Of course most of you know Nicole from, if nothing else, her interview here last year. But danged if she hasn't just gone and written what may be my favorite essay about Tom in close to forever:
All Hear the Dark Gospel of Thomas Ligotti
She uses it to expand mightily on what she touched on in that interview last year: the fact that when she started with "Our Temporary Supervisor" some years ago, she just didn't "get" the Ligotti vibe, but that when she returned some years later, she realized his work contained something to bowl her over, but first she had to go and read and "get" Lovecraft. So the essay becomes a personal history of literary and self discovery, and contains some really fine musings on the nature of cosmic horror, along with extremely perceptive and insightful readings of what HPL and Tom are all about as thinkers and fiction writers.
Great job, Nicole. I loved it.
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Apr 16, 2010 - 8:53 AM - by tartarusrussell
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The forthcoming Wormwood # 14 contains a fascinating and informative article by Joel Lane:"The Ruins of Reality: Thomas Ligotti and the uses of disenchantment". All the best - Ray
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