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<big>Des Lewis - GESTALT REAL-TIME BOOK REVIEWS<br> A FEARLESS FAITH IN FICTION — THE PASSION OF THE READING MOMENT CRYSTALLISED — Empirical literary critiques from 2008 as based on purchased books. </big>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.comBlogger2145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-36979908146316750302024-03-17T12:15:00.003+00:002024-03-19T09:47:31.648+00:00The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">Gradual alphabetical list of my Jackson reviews: </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/my-reviews-of-stories-by-shirley-jackson/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">ELIZABETH </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“; Elizabeth’s office allowed of no concealment, and so she came to work of a Monday morning to find that directly to the left of her desk, and within reaching distance of her left elbow as she typed, the wall had been taken away and the innermost skeleton of the building exposed.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The truly amazing scenes that open this novel — where has it been all my life? — contain the above ‘elbow’ trigger supreme, amidst a description of the listing or subsiding Museum building where 23 year old Elizabeth Richmond works as a clerk, with expressions such as ‘banking curve’ with regard to the tilted or canted exhibits, to which description I can do no justice here! But is this architectural difficulty connected with later references to E’s backache and migraine, after having dinner, a dinner considered important by her mannish aunt with whom E stays after her mother died, so important it is only the dinner’s subsequent brandy that loosens the aunt’s tongue in conversation after which she calls E KIDDO!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">If one ‘elbow’ moment was not enough, there was yet another…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Now, let’s see, this shaft down the building ought to pass somewhere close to Miss Richmond’s left elbow; will it, I wonder, trouble Miss Richmond to find one wall gone?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Seriously, this material is a staggering example of Shirley Jackson fiction. Whether it is evaluated ultimately to be good or bad fiction, remains to be seen.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> I have read so far up to…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She did not hear Aunt Morgen pass down the hall, nor perceive Aunt Morgen’s belated conscientious glance in through her doorway; she did not hear Aunt Morgen whisper, ‘You all right, kiddo?’”</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“There was still a gaping hole in her room at the museum, and it stayed just beyond her left elbow all day.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Another section where Shirley Jackson gaslights Elizabeth Bowen, or vice versa, or should I say Aunt Morgen does this to her niece and ward, Elizabeth, both by pretending E walked out in the middle of the night, and, later, at the Arrows’ house she makes something more of E’s headache and its ability to shock as an autonomous being! Or so I imagined. Mr and Mrs Arrow are themselves characters to cherish! And E is gaslit a third time by her aunt when with Dr Ryan, who then prescribes E a session with Dr. Wright, a psychoanalyst, before Dr R proceeds to pinch Aunt M’s bottom, unless, I, too, am being gaslit by this actual text and I imagined it all! In truth, I suspect the strange threatening anonymous letters E is receiving at work are connected to the aunt’s use of the word ‘dirty’ that is also used in the letters! Who knows? Anyway, below are just two examples, out of many, of precious moments in this text……</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“; the chair in which Elizabeth sat was soft and deep and upholstered in a kind of cloudy orange, her feet lay on a carpet in which a scarlet key design ran in and out and around a geometric floral affair in green and brown, and the wallpaper, pervading and emphasizing the room, and somehow the Arrows, presented the inadvertent viewer with alternate squares of blue and green, relieved almost haphazardly by touches of black.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The headache began, somehow, at the back of her head and progressed, creeping and fearful, down her back; Elizabeth thought of it as a live thing moving down her backbone,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">End of Chapter 1.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/05/the-birds-nest-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28242#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">DOCTOR WRIGHT</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“What is your name?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> “Elizabeth R.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A stream of monologue or a literary-characterful report by Dr W upon the case of his patient ER, where the thorny use of hypnosis is grappled with between them, and the use of a metaphor involving ‘water main’, even ‘sewer’ and the eventual mask within a mask that is as shocking here as it would be anywhere else alongside the more docile ER usually shown by both her waking self (R1) and hypnotised self (R2). I, as the reviewer (D2), am perhaps also hypnotised so far by this chapter, although initially I was relieved that Dr W is not one of the flash practitioners who provide games of bingo in the patients’ waiting-room.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have read up to: “…and heaven help me, I have seen it a thousand times since.”</p></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-11629156631255223982024-03-11T10:56:00.005+00:002024-03-14T18:52:00.476+00:00Stories by Shirley Jackson (4)<p> </p><div class="post-6629 page type-page status-publish hentry" id="post-6629" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry entry-content" style="border: 0px; clear: both; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 56px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />Stories by Shirley Jackson (4)</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Continued from here: <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; 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I said silly twice. That finishes it.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I wonder if the wife is more insanely furious about something than her husband, when they both pussy-foot around opening the eponymous letter. You better finish it yourself, and not depend on me telling you about it, even though I may have left it unread, except for that short passage above that was reported to me by someone else equally as mad about it as me.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3229#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3233" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3233" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3233" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2024 at 11:13 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3233" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> PARANOIA</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A story of a small man, like many dapper men, going home with a candy box under his ARM for his wife’s birthday. But one ELBOW trigger follows another ELBOW trigger, that accompanies a stalking or blatant pursuance by a man in a light hat, from taxi to bus to subway to souvenir shop, with several examples of the dapper man’s ARM, one being tugged half in half out, and on one occasion he is upon his KNEE, where all these hinges as to what identity he himself is when reaching his wife makes a disarmingly disturbing story. His head’s electric bulb moment?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3233#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3234" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3234" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3234" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 8, 2024 at 11:45 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3234" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LIKE MOTHER USED TO MAKE</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is possibly the saddest story I have ever read. About a single man in his own apartment, who is meticulous with civilised cutlery he has built up for dinner parties, although it seems it is only Marcia in the next door apartment (an apartment far more scruffy than his) who comes, now and again, to eat a meal cooked by him, including, this evening, with only his third ever cooked fruit pie, a cherry one that seems too sour for him but optimally sour for her. There is also much to relish about the Jacksonish multi-coloured accoutrements in his living quarters. Why is it all so sad? Visit the scene via this story and see for yourself. You may be induced to stay there forever. SOUR: so you are?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3234#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3235" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3235" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3235" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 9, 2024 at 4:12 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3235" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jack The Ripper</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It seems as if the title is the supremest spoiler ever. And if it indeed turns out to be such, it is all a bit ‘meh’. But what of all those men in the bar to whom our protagonist appeals about the 17 year old girl he had just witnessed drunk and comatose upon the pavement outside, ‘unattractive’ but ‘thin and lovely’ when laid out? Is this the first trigger for him to adopt the career already implanted as the title, a sudden brain surge he was not even expecting to possess him, none of which would explain the knife he carried with him so un-omnisciently? I blame the freehold author. The man was not even a narrator, reliable or not.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3235#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3236" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3236" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3236" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 10, 2024 at 4:44 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3236" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE MAN IN THE WOODS</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a remarkable deadpan story, with shades of Laura Carrington stories, or vice versa, a dead pan of onions and meat with an appetising smell, trees that crowd in upon a stone house, and the eponymous man called Christopher arriving through dark and endless trees from a random endless walk with an adopted cat, to be sort of welcomed by two ladies in green robes, and their cat Grimalkin that almost fights with Christopher’s cat. Is he going to be allowed to shelter overnight? — a suspenseful theme, while the man, who is the real host called Mr Oakes, sharpens a knife as if threatening Christopher, when the ladies prepare a deadpan feast. But is it more a question of Christopher being the man now duly in line to deal with the house and the garden’s roses and whatever else? The whole purpose of his trek through the woods, a purpose until now hidden in plain sight? Is there an inadvertent clue vaguely for what purpose Mr Oakes is going to use the knife at the river, when the two ladies’ names are joined up — Cissy (aka Circe) and Phyllis to Cis<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">syPhyllis</em>? But what of the measurements on the white-washed wall? The story thankfully defeats the reader in the end.</p><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3237" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3237" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3237" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 11, 2024 at 3:38 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3237" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SEVEN TYPES OF AMBIGUITY</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I recall studying this book by William Empson when I was a student of Stylistics under Anne Cluysenaar in the 1960s. This story with its title is probably the most plainly inscrutable one you will ever read, so one naturally seeks for ambiguities to help it have a pay-off. The story of a student boy who picks up the Empson book every time he visits a certain bookshop, a shop having several individual overhead lights with on-off switches at each shelf, a sort of basement which is otherwise cold and gloomy, and stairs leading down to it where, seemingly, there is always one extra step you don’t expect when reaching the bottom. The shopkeeper is also attending to other customers, a man and woman, and the man evidently wants fine books with fine covers and fine authors to read or as, I suspect, simply to furnish his front room. The probably penniless student, to the knowledge of the shopkeeper, always replaces the Empson on the shelf having acted as if he is inspecting it to buy it, yet certain that nobody will buy it and he can continue reading it next time he visits, and thus he leaves. And there we have it, as the inevitable ending follows the student’s departure from the bookshop. I switch off the light above the story, minding my step thereafter in the darkness.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3237#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3238" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3238" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3238" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2024 at 2:05 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3238" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE HONEYMOON OF MRS SMITH</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“She had worn her best dark-blue dress to be married in, and Mr Smith had worn a dark-blue suit so that they looked unnervingly alike….”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue is the darkest colour of all in Jackson. Helen Bertram has become Mrs Smith, a spear carrier by dint of name, like many of Jackson’s well-named spear carriers, and visited by another called Mrs Jones, after Mrs S had been out shopping fending off innuendo and so-called assistance for having married a potentially notorious Mr S, so who is Mr S? The complex Henry James prose loosens a bit as we realise what Mr S may be. It is a chilling and attritional task to read to the end where the word ‘rest’ takes on a multitude of meanings.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3238#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3239" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3239" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3239" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 13, 2024 at 4:03 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3239" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TRIAL BY COMBAT</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I simply love this story, a perfect gem. Where has it been all my life? Elizabeth Bowen plus Shirley Jackson, a simple tale of tension between ladies living in near identical rooms in an apartment block with understated compelling suspense regarding kleptomania of knickknacks and politeness with undercurrents, and the devastating ending that is even more understated. It was the aspirin that finally killed me! Not forgetting the blue housecoat hung up.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3239#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3240" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3240" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3240" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2024 at 3:33 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3240" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOME</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“the disgusting wet cold”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A run of the mill ghost story of a feudal-acting woman having taken over a large house in a small village community, with a bridge near the creek which she is warned nobody ever travelled when it was raining. So of course she ignored them and ended up immersed in wet cold bathos. To tell you more could not possibly spoil this story because, in my book, it is hardly worth reading in the first place. Be warned.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3240#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3241" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3241" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3241" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2024 at 4:06 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3241" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE VILLAGER</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An extremely subtle story, in danger of becoming too subtle to mean anything, that ends with aching shoulders. One woman had found herself disguising herself as another woman (the latter who is currently absent) while exploring the latter’s apartment for furniture to buy, a story all about missed opportunities of a dancing career and broken marriages, and the fact you can’t escape yourself by becoming someone else. Or vice versa. But who, in the process, over-stretched their whole body en pointe?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3241#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3242" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3242" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3242" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2024 at 4:30 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3242" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COME DANCE WITH ME IN IRELAND</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three ladies on the ground floor of an apartment, one with a baby, the other two visiting her from elsewhere in the block. The outside buzzer goes that rings the ground floor apartment when strangers or salesmen call, and this is a poor hungry old man selling shoelaces. Echoless, even though after they feel sorry for him and feed increasing amounts of an eggy fry-up to him, he echoes aspects of the poet Yeats (whom he once knew, he claims) before he rudely leaves. I loved the deadpan pointlessness. I blame the sherry they gave him. Or the fact that soon I will be too old to do up my own review shoelaces. Or accidentally knot them one to the other.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/?replytocom=3242#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3243" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3243" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/#comment-3243" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2024 at 6:42 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3243" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PILLAR OF SALT</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stories as often oblique and dark palliators now reach their end. I seem, by random chance, to have left the best until last. An almost direct experience of the holiday of a seasoned husband and wife, Brad and Margaret., visiting New York from New Hampshire, innocents abroad, but their ideals of a city break gradually takes various turns of alarms, confusions and even the imposing city buildings are in entropy as well as the panic and meltdown of Margaret, conveyed by dense attritional paragraphing that effectively plunges the reader into her various emotions, towards an ‘elbow’ moment that helps bring matters to a frighteningly open-ended close. And this final story makes even my reviewing methods crazily credible….</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We’ve been playing anagrams.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">END</p></div></div></li></ol></div></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-54162932298907219052024-03-09T13:30:00.006+00:002024-03-15T12:58:22.004+00:00Mooncalves<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">NO Press 2023</span></p><article class="post-47224 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-adam-golaski tag-brian-evenson tag-briar-ripley-page tag-chelsea-sutton tag-christi-nogle tag-daniel-m-lavery tag-elwin-cotman tag-ernest-o-ogunyemi tag-glen-hirshberg tag-j-a-w-mccarthy tag-jaime-corbacho tag-janalyn-guo tag-jeff-wood tag-john-wm-thompson tag-l-marie-wood tag-lisa-tuttle tag-mark-g-meyer tag-meghan-lamb tag-nathan-breakenridge tag-sasha-geffen tag-sofia-samatar tag-steve-rasnic-tem tag-thomas-mavroudis" id="post-47224" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Edited by John WM Thompson</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">When I read this book, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Stories written by Briar Ripley Page, Ernest O. 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Since first coming across, as a young student, the word in Shakespeare’s Tempest, I have teased friends and family with the accusation of their opinions currently being like those of mooncalves and, so, I didn’t want to waste more time until they improved their intellects! Thankfully, nobody, I believe, took me seriously as they could see the glint in my eye.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/?replytocom=28207#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 8, 2024 at 4:09 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28208" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">December Story by Briar Ripley Page</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It’s just edges. Celestial blankness, corpse fingers, frozen lake. I search a long time for the final piece that will finish the border and close it off, but nothing ever quite fits. None of the shapes fall into place.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Well, anyone who knows me, will know I would most certainly like any sort of blankness, let alone a celestial version of it. And thus the story around this jigsaw stays with me powerfully, a jigsaw, above, that describes my gestalt real-time reviewing to such a Kafkaesque perfection of imperfection, that it is almost worth dying for, let alone trying and possibly failing to scry its tale of epistles, some sent, some unsent, and attempted meetings between two boyfriends, one K, the other Gene, with hints of trans-surgery for one of them in a sort of Evenson Warren, and one of them sleep-walking into a version of Golaski’s Refrigerator-Drome, and a woman with too many teeth. And all of us screaming through a ‘flesh radio’. And much more, from Snow Queen to Looking-Glass.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Even wild animals can become attached to their cages,…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/?replytocom=28208#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/#comment-28211" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-09T13:28:04+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 9, 2024 at 1:28 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28211" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Tomato by Ernest O. Ògúnyẹmí</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“What if the tomato started bleeding?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Having just yesterday finished reading and reviewing the stories of Leonora Carrington (<a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>), I think I can safely say that this story competes with such classics and in most cases wins out. The story of a woman’s young son being turned into a tomato by the recriminatory magic of another woman, and her efforts to regain him by all manner of means and her own potential self-abasement, travelling all the byways of her own backstory and of her feminine body, eventually reaching a shocking but inspiring climax that one can hardly forget.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Why is the past tense of broadcast <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">broadcast</em> and not <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">broadcasted</em>?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Why is a tomato sometimes called a love apple, I ask, as I cutted it.</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28214" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Night Fragrance by Janalyn Guo</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is an engaging story of a young girl with metal back brace and a troubled mother (estranged from the girl’s father) moving to a house and community circumscribed by tall trees and fragrances, some of the latter meaty, some of her school friends involving her in games like Hungry Woods, in swimming wild and more, with mushrooms, orchids and meat-eating flowers, and, as an inspiringly inadvertent theme and variations, 18 variations in total perhaps, upon the tomato immediately preceding this story, we learn more about the metabolism of femininity in interface with the mines, if not minds, of earth and a transformative growth towards where life is more fulfilling.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/#comment-28218" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-11T12:50:58+00:00" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It Does Not Do What You Think It Does </strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brian Evenson</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“And then I waited, elbows balanced on the countertop, fingers laced gently together, for my food to arrive.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">An elbow trigger that does what the title says, time and time again, as if you cannot believe in such a literal refrain. A trigger that immediately preceded one man travelling all night meeting by chance another such man in a motel eatery, the latter tugging at the former’s sleeve, more than once. With mention in their ensuing conversation of sounds detached from objects stalking a travelling person and smells migrated from places to a travelling person, too. As if white noise is a medium for such processes. The ending is important but maybe it is not important, but what is truly important was the journey there, a journey that transcended omniscience itself. Important only, though, in the sense of things being imported or fostered out. This story does do what you initially thought it did.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this author: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/brian-evenson/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/brian-evenson/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/?replytocom=28218#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28221" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28221" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-40 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="40" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=40&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=40&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=60&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=80&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=120&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=160&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/#comment-28221" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-12T12:40:12+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2024 at 12:40 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28221" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Butterfly Kisses </strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jaime Corbacho</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is an amazing flutter-peridot of a story, the prose textured and deep yet pellucid and limpid, not that I understood the plot consciously, but part of me certainly did by osmosis, as the journey into death is deployed more tantalisingly real than ever before in literature with coffin-sharing bifurcated by ocean burial. Each word tickled my cheek before entering my eyes. </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/?replytocom=28221#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28224" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/#comment-28224" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-13T15:26:21+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 13, 2024 at 3:26 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28224" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The First Wife </strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lisa Tuttle</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…his online footprint was nearly as faint as my own.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This story seemed at first merely plainly workmanlike with Halloween themes for mooncalf readers involving an old lady’s backstory of husbands, a backstory shared with another old lady and the former’s erstwhile yearning to own the nearby mansion, but it becomes staggeringly surprising at the chutzpah of its quite unexpected mask and painting theme of one of her ex-husband’s wives, including herself, and how we are left eventually in a limbo <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;">of frighteningly bottomless bathos. </span></p><ol class="commentlist" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28224" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/#comment-28225" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-13T15:30:05+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 13, 2024 at 3:30 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28225" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of Lisa Tuttle: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/black-static-55/#comment-8530" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyond the Chain</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> L. Marie Wood</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A nicely oblique vignette about what happened beyond the chain and the perpetrator of an abominable crime sheltering in their own shadow while beckoning for their ghostly victims so as to reenact the crime. Or that is not what is about at all!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> Even I (or especially me) could not see clearly beyond the chain. Perhaps Shirley Jackson could.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/?replytocom=28228#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28232" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Edge of the Forest </strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeff Wood</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“No one peered curiously from behind the shades.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Sometimes in dreams one can get an added letter here, or even a missing one. A story of man’s fight against the coyotes using his own urine, towards the end directly peeing at them, rather than peer at a distant circle of their keening rituals. He has just moved to the edge of the city where the coyotes roam, gradually subsumed by their danger and of who he actually was in the eyes of wife and daughter as well as his neighbour, maybe just a few coyotes pretending to be more than they were or making beautiful gestures in fabricating their own dead as eruptions from the pattern of the pack. But are they this book’s mooncalves as diminished volcanoes, if you add the missing letter M as representative of the essential me? Or as representative of a moondog lynchpin in the fabrication of such coyotes not now in dream but the reality of nightmare? Are we more than we ever were? </p></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/06/mooncalves/?replytocom=28211#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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And why was I unsurprised that the Carringtons lived in the nicer Hill Road area? Rhetorical questions soon subsumed by the sheer power of this first chapter, where the merratic Mary Katherine Blackwood takes us on a shopping tour of the village of rot and rust and barely suppressed hate towards her and Constance and Uncle Julian cut off in their house beyond the black rock. And what I take to be a snakes and ladders game she plays with invisible dice to get to the village and back again to her house. We learn so much about those in the village and various characters and the Blackwoods’ backstory, suffice to say this is surely one of the greatest opening chapters in the Art of the Insidious that there has ever been. Stylish and disturbing. With quotable sentencess galore that will ever ring in my head. I just need one mention of Mary’s mind world where she lives as a form of escape… “I thought of catching scarlet fish in the rivers on the moon…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28205#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…a happy new arrangement of colors,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And an arrangement of paths, too — hidden, forbidden or bidden, that have customarily crossed each other as MK (Mary Kat, Merricat) reaches home with her shopping — leads to one bidden but gauche guest bringing a forbidden guest for tea, only for the latter to pry into the backstory of the (reliable?) narrator MK’s family, a backstory of blackberries that you will know about indelibly, should you have already read this story. And no reason for me to travel forbidden areas here, except mention we get to know more about the unfree threesome living here — “…by nature, she managed to make the simple act of moving into a room and sitting down a complex ballet for three people; […] I realized now that this was the third time in one day that the subject had been touched, and three times makes it real” — and this threesome’s dire near-tontine of a backstory, via the studiedly ‘eccentric’ looseness of tongue and the collated written notes of Uncle J in his wheelchair, and the temptation today for MK’s sister C to go back into local inimical society…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> “‘There was a spider in it,’ Constance said to the teapot. We used a little rose-covered sugar bowl for the lump sugar for tea.”</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28209" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2.244em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-28217" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 594.828125px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28217" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/#comment-28217" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-11T11:11:38+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 11, 2024 at 11:11 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28217" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I seem to have forgotten to post this below yesterday…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I once buried six blue marbles in the creek bed to make the river beyond run dry.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">MK is our only narrative contact point as first person singular. Blue is an important negative colour for Jackson, I sense, C dressed in it today, whilst the ancient preserves in the cellar jarred by the past Blackwood women are full of the other competing Jackson colours. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…the deeply colored rows of jellies and pickles and bottled vegetables and fruit, maroon and amber and dark rich green, stood side by side in our cellar and would stand there forever, a poem by the Blackwood women.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Doctor comes briefly to visit Uncle J, the latter who later reminisces amid his dementia about the past crucial day of the blackberries, or as he suggests would have been more appropriate: the rarebit. C on the brink of flying this safe nest of a hidden house. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">MK dwelling on the relative safety to herself of the attic, the cellar or the moon. Her three magic words chosen today: <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Melody, Gloucester, Pegasus.</em> I shall dwell on these for a while and later pontificate, as is my wont. </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28217#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“, and I told myself that long thin things would remind me to be kinder to Uncle Julian;”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Uncle J growing more senile? A chapter of such thin things; strange, I thought, the word thing already has thin embedded. And happenstantial patterns in the scenery around the house as MK walks with Jonas the cat who is often seen “running up a storm.” Some patterns deliberate where MK has buried treasure, and father’s notebook supposedly nailed up somewhere, and someone I shall here leave nameless arrives at the house. We seem to be at a pivot or fulcrum. C seems, too, to doubt it but MK says it nevertheless: “The world is full of terrible people.” Since this book was published, I know what I now know about such a sentiment…</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28219" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28219" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/#comment-28219" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-12T10:01:39+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2024 at 10:01 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28219" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Is it true that you can plant a leaf?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is a chapter miraculous with its insidious Ivy Compton-Burnett like familial dialogue over meals, and MK’s sense that the house’s security has been broken by the arrival of a character I have not yet named. Don’t forget, Jonas is her cat not this new character with whom there is talk of poisons and their delay in working.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I saw Jonas in the doorway and Constance by the stove but they had no color.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">‘No color’ seems significant in Jackson fiction as are the colours themselves, and we learn more of MK’s diaphanous moon haven, her winged horse, and UJ’s planned notes or book about what had happened in the past, a task possibly diverted by the arrival of the new character I have not yet named. MK calls this character a ghost, but that does not make it true. A refrain of ‘neatening’ the house, too.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘I really think I shall commence chapter forty-four,’ he said, patting his hands together. ‘I shall commence, I think, with a slight exaggeration and go on from there into an outright lie.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A book of fiction, my review of it, too.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…and everything sparkled at us, even the blue dress in the portrait of our mother. […] …pretending that the ceiling was the floor…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28219#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6 </strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“That evening Constance played for us in the drawing room, the tall curve of her harp making shadows against our mother’s portrait and the soft notes falling into the air like petals.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">It as if the character I have not yet named, an intruder from the POV of MK and UJ, but for Constance a welcome saviour, was indeed disrupting the ‘black rock’ shelter and vanish-from-society syndrome of the house, (Cf. Joan Lindsay’s picnic or maroon party later or earlier in literary history) — a character I have not yet named who complains of MK’s fanciful treasures, like the gold chain of her father she hangs from a tree, and MK’s soliloquys to the shangri-la of the moon where she yearns to visit, and UJ’s box of papers, that needs protection, too. Constance believes, meanwhile, along with the character I have not yet named, that they should never, in the first place, have withdrawn into their ‘rock’ but faced the consequences outside in society, the consequences of their dire family history of evilly spiked blackberries, if not rarebit.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28222#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“ I altered our father’s room very quickly, and almost without noise. […] I looked at the room with pleasure. A demon-ghost would not easily find himself here. […] …and I wondered if he would like my six blue marbles.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">MK changes the whole house, indeed, to make the visitor I have not yet named unwelcome enough to leave. Leaving leaves and branches where books should be and much else to make it seem a ‘crazy house,’ to rid it of what she sees as a ghost and a demon. Whilst the latter undigs what MK has buried including money and UJ confuses the visitor with his own brother instead of the brother’s son, or, like UJ, do I confuse or forget things, too, and MK resorts to the summerhouse where she reconfigures in her mind all the vanished family around the table again, when she was deemed important enough to protect. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And then my hand is forced:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘You, too,’ Charles said in that soft voice. ‘I have put up with enough from both of you. One of you fouls my room and goes around burying money and the other one can’t even remember my name.’”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28226#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; 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The mayhem both mass-deliberate and fire-accidental is a revelation to me where my own ‘mansion without roof’ becomes here a reality as a newly shaped castle.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And within it Jonas the Cat and MK and C try to continue their ‘Picnic’ within a now more literally hanging-by-a-thread ‘black rock’ and within its still safeguarding walls. The cellar and its preserves untouched. Safeguarding against so-called friends as well as foes. Poignancy upon poignancy. This is great literature hidden in plain sight.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…we would have to neaten the house, although it was not the usual day for neatening the house.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/we-have-always-lived-in-the-castle-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28233#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Below is all you need to know of its ending till you read this book…..</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘They are the children of the strangers,’ I told her. ‘They have no faces.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; 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And regrets are like leaving tasty picnics outside, as we should for anyone we once harmed or isolated. A fable for our times. But who, in ancient days, sowed the rarebit with poison? — an imperfect question left perfectly unanswered.</p></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-75241825299982776012024-03-07T15:25:00.007+00:002024-03-16T13:51:23.441+00:00Stone Gods by Adam Golaski<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">.</span></p><article class="post-47204 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-adam-golaski" id="post-47204" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; 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hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Simultaneously reviewing, by chance, a collection of stories by Leonora Carrington <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>, I am not surprised by what I have deemed to be her plot-holes becoming Golaski’s fog-holes here.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Sexual eels, with named characters deaf to swells, tugging at craft or raft towards seaweedy water, and heads swelling till your own head becomes the whole body. If you read Golaski about teenage Annalisa, you will become one of the big-headed people, too. StoneGolaski has a Neologist within it. Murmur, a foreign assonance of Mother. 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">STONE HEAD</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Maybe the landlord put it here, a crazy lawn ornament,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Triggered, not by an elbow, but by a large unexpected head of stone in his garden, a man — awaiting the return of his wife and 13 months old daughter from visiting his wife’s parents — suffers end of world anxiety and compelling suspense (that we share) and visions and nightmares and neighbours morphing, items that I will not spoil by describing them here. I guess it all may be authorially inadvertent but intended by some exterior force that this substantive story seems, in some slight way, to end up being a theme and variations upon Shirley Jackson’s story ‘Louisa, Please Come Home’ that I read and reviewed <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2487" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a> two days ago! — making both stories seem even more powerful, in synergy as well as entirely separate. Whatever the plagues that now fall from once Heavenly skies. </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28199#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Great Blind God Passed Through Us</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“What the god wrote became alive, but these things were unintended, half-made…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And what was left was Kari Kari. As told by young Mary about herself and her equally young cousin Lucy and the connected monsters and nightmares that surrounded them as created by their extended family and by others, (“‘I dare you,’ a boy said to us all, ‘to go past Mr. Floor Brush’s house.’”) if not as created by the author as ‘god’ of this story who begs us not to lose control and to make what we read have a happy ending, I guess. Even their two bracelets that Mary’s Uncle or Lucy’s Father bought for them at the Witches Market were connected halves by the end. The blind god’s own reenactment being stuck halfway within us? </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Telling you any of the rest would spoil it.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Father sat beside my bed, in a chair I was too big for, elbows on his knees, head propped up on his fists.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28203#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/#comment-28204" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-07T15:19:33+00:00" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Refrigerator-drome</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is a not a “Mexican phantasy” although one is mentioned here, as if knowing I just finished reviewing Leonora Carrington’s stories. And Kitty and Astrid seemed to be mutual ghost-masturbatory versions of Eleanor and Theo in Hill House, also finished reviewing today, who never had their picnic. But you need to get into the fridge to see if yesteryear’s city food is there to provide for such a maroon party. And for those you used to share a city apartment with. A script that ‘overwrites’ Kitty, in short uniquely scanned bursts or plamsets of prose verse, and it has a shock in its last stunza. Shocking and somewhat aggressive towards my normal tastes. But worth it in the end. So much more to say about what happened. But I’ll leave it there, as I am reading it in an ebook not on paper spooling out. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“And, indeed, the script did pulsate.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><cite class="fn" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/#comment-28206" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-08T09:38:02+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 8, 2024 at 9:38 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28206" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></p><div class="comment-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; clear: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOLY GHOST</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Embedded in the beat (sticks on thick glass bottles) is ‘Frère Jacques’ and Mahler’s ‘Symphony No. 1,’ or the other way around . . .”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This feels as if it is the most effectively disturbing story I have ever read! Mark my words, I have read some mighty disturbing works over the years and this groove beats them all. Any clue, other than the single quote above, would spoil it. Spin it and see.</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28210" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28210" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/#comment-28210" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-09T10:02:11+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 9, 2024 at 10:02 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28210" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WILD DOGS</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I’ve never seen a yellow velvet rope,”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This story uses the word I would use about it: “relentless”. Attritional and free flowing step by step, morph by morph, from snowflakes ashes to mention of our man’s ex called Asha and eventual sighting of her beyond the swirl of levels marked out by red and black curtains to a DJ called White. Via our man flirting with Lala on the way to this club where in its backroom is a picture of woods that becomes as real as the eponymous dogs, not gods, it contains. I feel every bite and cherry, every cigarette and backstep into a groin, thinking back to what Lala said to him earlier and how this story sort of backs itself up forever, as if I am, even now, rewilding it…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Don’t you want to know what novel I planned to read tonight?”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28210#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/#comment-28213" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-10T11:31:11+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 10, 2024 at 11:31 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28213" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Night-piece (“yielding light”)</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Finds a performance by the London Symphony Orchestra of Debussy’s La Mer (can’t help but chuckle at conductor Valery Gergiev’s sweaty comb-over).”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">That gives you no idea what this story promises you. A blend of Elizabeth Bowen, Walter de la Mare and Shirley Jackson girls and ghosts plus a bewildered male neighbour, whose refrigerator is also explicitly empty. More than such a blend though; it is Golaski above all.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“All the cupboards in the kitchen are open wide and empty.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28213#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">UNFINISHED HOUSES</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A little boy called Adam in a rite of passage of reality and dream and/or time-jumping. We pass through vistas of a dog bark-barking, a model castle in the garden toward the perceived relationships of small children and through worlds, inter alia, of Brian Evenson, Leonora Carrington, and Shirley Jackson, tunnelling from a housing estate being built around him to a grown up state already established.. (I note that Marghanita Laski — whom I used to watch talking about things over my head on black and white TV when I was myself a small boy — wrote a novel called LITTLE BOY LOST as well as one of the greatest ever horror stories: THE TOWER.)</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28220" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28220" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/#comment-28220" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-12T11:17:19+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 12, 2024 at 11:17 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28220" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">OPEN HOUSES</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘A bug crawling across the hour,’ he said…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Adam takes a post-snow and nighttime skateboard dare on his own chosen recondite slope near the cemetery, as interspersed with phone conversations with a girl he feels unworthy of — I don’t know, I might misremember, as I was more overtaken by the asthma-transcending ride of a composite of daredevil cliffhangers and an open sided house like a dollshouse rifling dark memories of an event that scores along the ground toward a scary destination. Take the ‘color plate’ out and what do you see behind it, I somehow want to ask.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28220#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“(The paper the note is written on should be as white as the blossoms were white, and just as we’ve had enough time to read the note, white should fill the screen.)”</p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="IMG_2024-03-13-130816" class="wp-image-47305" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/img_2024-03-13-130816.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Here we have yellow and white, and the moving of Golaski ‘color plates’ and paintings and studio painters like Bacon and Frieske plus verbal refrains like “The print is still visible.” Visions of a Venus shape and a naked female Runner, and our Adam on a rooftop as part of cinematic camera instructions, cut from and cut to, speculating on leaving home as a stowaway on a passing train. With screenplay scripted intercuts of girls and women who importune him, and the colours move, with mittens, from bright yellow to white to ashy grey. I keep my own powder colourless, if not dry.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28223#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 14, 2024 at 11:28 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28227" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Woods (Marion)</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…was it that winter that I wore only a navy blue rain coat, found in my grandfather’s garage, the one with the cigarette-scorched hole on the arm?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I can merely touch the arm of this substantive, nay, great, story, engagingly readable and accessible, but so complex, I also vanish behind its last tree. Of youthful fictions concocted by other older fictions of Adam’s boyhood, dating, girls names interchanged, parallel bus and train journeys, a palimpsest of selves. A girl character given a London accent travelling to Braintree, which actually does not prevent this Braintree being in America, not near where I live in UK. Where I also once used to work for “uninspired corporations flogging the world with mediocre products.” Can I hide, too, behind the trees that created the old paper I once scrawled on? Then vanish? A blast of hunters.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I’d heard stories about the woods (by whom? By osmosis. Imagined). A story about hunters who shot…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">”Marion rubbed my arm with her hands and said, ‘We’re warm now.’”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28227#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 15, 2024 at 10:47 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28231" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Little Stories</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…a sequence of little stories her deputy editor submitted to the journal (anonymously, it should be added;…)”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The Chinese Wall aspirations of ‘Nemonymous’ but she had guessed who it was! This is the mixing and mail-merging, if not crushing together, of these little stories as they affect the story editor’s crush on the deputy editor. A little story that is a speculatively erotic art installation with a Duchamp ready-maid (my sic), here comprising iced lettuce heads, and elbows and knees. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She lay back on her elbows, uncrossed her legs. […] until her knees sink into her body</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28236" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28236" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/#comment-28236" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-03-16T12:53:11+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 16, 2024 at 12:53 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28236" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Wind, The Dust</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The doorbell rings. […] She must’ve made a hundred wings.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A thousand things, even myself as an old man in a closet that convulses dust. The text has even a similar styled script within it on a train. Doris with the wings has a backstory that haunts the place where she is landlady. Adam is renting a floor above another apartment ‘split funny’ between floors. A last balcony as a feature. Geoff is also renting there. You gotta get used to Geoff being there, and his ways, and transformations. Not Kafkaesque. Rain and wind. Lots of phones vibrating. Women as prospects of hesitation. Ends around a scene of non-utilisation of arms, shoulders or elbows to sit upright in bed. For me, every day is such a recurrent dream. Other way-stations in the text… “…all blue, the trees’ blue trunks, shade on shade of pinks—near white, near red, neither true.” — “Way too much beer, but why not? Way too much beer.” — “Procopius’ The Secret History, Empress Theodora’s stone face on the black cover.” But not using the elbows was the darkest moment out of many. I should know, I was made to be there.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28236#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The book is Procopius’ The Secret History.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is the crux. Stone meeting head. And a poem Adam writes or does not write about gods. Adam left by wife, for once, to babysit his own son by means of a baby monitor that he leaves on the front stoep, then visions of an angel in the purple smoky air outside. I didn’t know how important this was above in the previous story that I had already made reference to because at that time I had not yet read this story’s “…but hasn’t the will to do more than prop himself up on his elbows.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/03/04/stone-gods-by-adam-golaski/?replytocom=28237#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 16, 2024 at 1:37 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28238" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></strong>From elbow to rainbow…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[coda]</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Rainbow Summer</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The ark was a perfect cube. Not shaped like a boat. […] Thousands of rooms, like a mansion from Heaven.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Your large father who can fit your head into his hand as if into a baseball glove. Tells you stories in a room that grows smaller because of his presence in it, stories he embellishes after they ended, like this coda. He helps build boats near the ocean outside, works for the academy, strained marriage with your mother, one day tells you a story of what happens to Noah as embellished by him after the flood… an ending full of quaint animals in your room and a faith in God’s plan? </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“You sit up in bed, your back against the headboard.” — as this coda’s “stone seawall”?</p></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-11399218941957147342024-03-05T10:24:00.002+00:002024-03-07T13:30:12.662+00:00Stories of Leonora Carrington<p> <img alt="IMG_1385" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46927" data-attachment-id="46927" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.8","credit":"","camera":"iPad Pro (11-inch) (3rd generation)","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1707993160","copyright":"","focal_length":"3","iso":"16","shutter_speed":"0.0011325028312571","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.801497222222","longitude":"1.1886888888889"}" data-image-title="IMG_1385" data-large-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg?w=624" data-medium-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg" data-orig-size="2987,2593" data-permalink="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/img_1385/#main" height="2593" sizes="(max-width: 2987px) 100vw, 2987px" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg" srcset="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg 2987w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg?w=150&h=130 150w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg?w=300&h=260 300w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg?w=768&h=667 768w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1385.jpeg?w=1024&h=889 1024w" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-15T10:47:23+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 15, 2024 at 10:47 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28152" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous review in 2019 of the first story is reproduced below…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">==========================================</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE DEBUTANTE by Leonora Carrington</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I cannot eat anymore; the two feet are left, but if you have a little bag I will eat them later in the day.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Swift’s Modest Proposal seems to be in my mind today, and Swift himself is mentioned towards the end of this two page story. As a sledgehammer to crack a nut, a hyena from the zoo dresses up, complete with garnered human face, to replace a girl who hates dinner parties in her own honour. Reminds me of <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/08/27/clarice-lispector-complete-stories/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clarice Lispector</a>, too, in keeping with gestalt leaps of imagination from Mexico to Brazil.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/?replytocom=28152#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE HOUSE OF FEAR</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Entirely incapable of being summarised, this brief story makes me swing my tail to the rhythm of one song and bang my hooves to a different one, as I read in it about the nature of Fear and of much else that could follow but…</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/?replytocom=28155#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-16T11:10:08+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 16, 2024 at 11:10 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28158" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE OVAL LADY</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…’We are all horses!’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">It is as if these Carrington miniatures have been waiting to pounce on me, straight out of Barthelme or a deadpan version of a surreal Elizabeth Bowen and even out of my own recent miniatures, now here with an edge of absurd extrapolation taking us into realms of an equally absurd truth, as we enter this narrow tall house where there is a tall lady called Lucretia with a pheasant feather who talks of her father, a house that is a sort of high and oval ‘stately home’ inside and Lucretia is an equally tall and oval adolescent in this mansion, a place I may deem to be a Whovian Talldis. Not even its roof could keep the screams trapped when she is punished upstairs for pretending to be horse, as I infer from what the feather later told me. I heard the screams downstairs, too, as if inside myself — my last animal instinct of an inference. Does ‘oval’ mean egg-shaped?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/?replytocom=28158#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-17T10:47:56+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 17, 2024 at 10:47 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28163" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> THE ROYAL SUMMONS</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I nearly saved my poor husband from his last attack of bronchitis by knitting him a waistcoat.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">These stories are off- and on-putting in a great way, with open-ended obliquities at each turn, even after the story has ended. This is the summons for the female narrator to the Queen to act as her representative at cabinet with the Prime Minister, but her car is buried to help grow mushrooms by the chauffeur so she has to travel by horse and cart, and ends up, via a domino rally, being drafted into assassinating the Queen by throwing her to the lions, because she had gone mad. But who had gone mad? Me, apparently. Lewis, writing reviews in the library’s only carrel.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…she fed all her horses on jam.” </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/?replytocom=28163#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-18T10:40:16+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 18, 2024 at 10:40 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28167" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A MAN IN LOVE</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“No doubt she is dead, but the warmth remains.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A story of a girl, after stealing a melon from a fruit seller, has to listen to his absurd life story — involving a crone with a head on a string, foxes and wolves as landlords — as the thief’s forfeit. And then to see his dear lover Agnes dead for many years but still warm enough to incubate eggs cetera. Agnes now triggered by Melon, mangonels from mélanges, we shall still never obtain the trebuchet of truth.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/?replytocom=28167#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-19T09:24:22+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 19, 2024 at 9:24 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28171" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">UNCLE SAM CARRINGTON</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A talking horse and fighting vulgar vegetables, and a young lady is counselled by two lady dowagers when she is lost in an uncountable forest of trees about her aunt and uncle always having an embarrassing laughter attack at sunset and at full moon respectively. Merely that. Makes sense if you try. But it matters little whether it did or didn’t mean anything as you fall in an open-ended hole as an ending. Perhaps the secret is that ‘morningstar’ can be formed from the letters of Sam Carrington.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/the-debutante-and-other-stories-leonora-carrington/?replytocom=28171#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AS THEY RODE ALONG THE EDGE</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“; cushions made of millions of black mice biting one another — when the blessed buttocks were elsewhere.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Here the author is riding along the edge between automatic writing and deliberate ratiocination, as we follow Virginia Fur riding her Wheel while her hundred black and yellow cats stayed at home, then with her being importuned by Saint Alexander in his concrete underwear and a big wild boar called Igname, while two chatty ladies decide to stay off at a convent, and all strands of the ‘plot’ eventually come together as if we have also been riding Virginia’s Wheel. Just noticed Igname is an anagram of enigma. Nobody has noticed this before, it seems.</p><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-size: 14px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2464" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2464" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2464" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 21, 2024 at 10:00 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2464" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SKELETON’S HOLIDAY</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The ceiling was the sky, the floor the earth.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="IMG_1416" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-47006" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_1416.jpeg?w=990" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; max-width: 100%;" /></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Oops, wrong photo! Sorry.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As well as being hand in fist with Rhys Hughes fiction it’s miraculously in tune with Donald Barthelme’s PORCUPINES story reviewed by chance half an hour ago here: <a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1582" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1582</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Satisfied he contemplated the Milky Way, the army of bones that encircles our planet. It sparkles, glitters, shines with all its myriad little skeletons that dance, jump, turn somersaults, do their duty.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2464#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2466" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2466" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2466" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 22, 2024 at 9:48 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2466" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PIGEON, FLY!
</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apparently the title is a game played by sheep, later appearing to be men dressed as whores. As Eleanor is taken from home by the mediaeval equivalent as prophecy of an appealing scam email of ‘things to her advantage to be gained’ if she goes with it. Indeed it is a form of trans-gender email on a horse followed by a painterly job for Eleanor to paint the dead Agatha amidst the corpse’s written talk of husbands as naked angels. No wonder we are as we are today; we can never shake off the syndrome of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Airlines-Drues</em> as then <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">unrealised launderers, sideliners, slanderers</em> and <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">idealisers</em>. Still, things are better realised now than they otherwise might have been, I guess.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2466#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2469" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2469" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2469" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23, 2024 at 9:57 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2469" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE THREE HUNTERS</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Starts with a dead rabbit, not a white one, for our narrator, and meeting a ninety year old man without trousers who can only move in leaps and bounds, three hunters with names starting with Mc, and a tale of a feckless fart in church making all their trophies turn into a landscape of sausages as God’s punishment. Mine is reading this story while having to leap from each boundary of thought to another. See my review of THE BIG BOOK OF CLASSIC FANTASY (starting <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/the-big-book-of-classic-fantasy/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>) where the conclusion is that all great fantasy is such leaps and bounds.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2469#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2472" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2472" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2472" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 24, 2024 at 2:48 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2472" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MONSIEUR CYRIL DE GUINDRE</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Papa wants Spring.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Possibly the most lush and implicitly-illicitly sexual work of absurdism you will ever read. I dare not even breathe on it let alone review it. In fact, I have gone too far already.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2472#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2474" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2474" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2474" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 25, 2024 at 2:00 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2474" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SISTERS</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A “forest of food” prepared by servants, including variously choice stuffings, and two sisters, one a sort of Mrs Rochester in the attic, await the return of the ex-king who writes love letters to the other sister. The one in the attic wants ‘to drink red’. One of the most remarkable vampire stories ever written, please take it as read.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2474#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2476" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2476" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2476" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 26, 2024 at 3:34 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2476" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CAST DOWN BY SADNESS</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…the house, a large mansion covered in sculptures and terraces descending from it one beyond the other in a stupefying state of confusion.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…the latter words like the story itself.<br />Try retell its plot at your peril.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I saw the reflection of the moon in the water, but was horrified to see there was no moon in the sky: the moon had been drowned in the water.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2476#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2478" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2478" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2478" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 27, 2024 at 1:41 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2478" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The next story I reviewed on the THIRTEENTH of November 2011 here: <a href="https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-weird-4/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/the-weird-4/</a>, as follows in its THEN context… (add the first four digits of 27.2.24, today’s date, thus ignoring the other four shown)</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">=============================================</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">White Rabbits – Leonora Carrington</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…watched a bluebottle suck the dry corpse of a spider between my feet.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With the symbiotically potential influencing across Pest Street from balcony to balcony (as in the earlier story entitled ‘The Spider’), this startling vignellarette is a shard or scintilla of random truth and fiction that paradoxically resonates unscintillatingly with the inner and, eventually, outer sickness of feeding processes from ancient times and, for me, with the new custom of saying “white rabbits” out loud at the start of the 13th of any month. (13 Nov 11)</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2478#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2480" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2480" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2480" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 28, 2024 at 4:50 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2480" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WAITING</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Forty-three, that makes seven . . . a beautiful number.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A heart-breaker (full of much Carrington magic and a music box) for a young woman called Margaret, my having just read about the Margaret in Shirley Jackson’s A VISIT, as Margaret waits for her sweetheart Fernando, and a blonde lady, her dog-like hair similar to that of her two blonde dogs, takes her to a house with the dogs where she reveals herself to be Fernando’s lover instead. Important work because of its synchronicity for me today… including the counterpart house here with the long bleak marble staircase and its moths and…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I Will Always Come Back”.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2480#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2481" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2481" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2481" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 29, 2024 at 10:46 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2481" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SEVENTH HORSE</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A truly remarkable and disturbing tale of what I deem to be were-horses that I first took to be human. Required reading for those imbued in the various fantasy genres of literature. This one gives a new slant on the expression ‘seventy-seven sunset strip’!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2481#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2484" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2484" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2484" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 1, 2024 at 3:10 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2484" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JEMIMA AND THE WOLF</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What it says in the title. The wolf is a handsome man hovering on the edge of animalhood and he sort of obsesses Jemima to the point of crush, Jemima being an adolescent who despises her ugly mother, and Jemima sits in trees to ponder, and it is a longer story with many of the author’s archetypal false steps whereby you fall into plotholes, and you think different plots begin, like meeting Mimoo, a boy, of the same age? Leading her to a castle where there is re-connection to the wolf-man and the chicken heads she once chopped off thus earning her a rooster head from him. But what of her equally despised Governess Bleuserbes? A bespoke plothole invented just for this review.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2484#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2486" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2486" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2486" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 3, 2024 at 5:12 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2486" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE NEUTRAL MAN</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Astonishingly bizarre. Not least being the moustache stuck to a pork chop at a so-called masked ball, and sirens dressed as choir boys. And I have no ideas other than wallow in the absurdity of the events in the mansion and the green lady’s reactions. Perhaps it’s because I am a neutral man who is British. You see, I can sit and not worry and just accept what is thrown at me,</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The congenital stupidity of the inhabitants of the British Isles is so embedded in their blood that they themselves aren’t conscious of it anymore.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2486#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2488" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2488" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2488" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 4, 2024 at 2:27 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2488" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MY FLANNEL KNICKERS</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My aged face has eaten itself with wonky teeth by means of a lunar plexus, and thus I shall I leave it there. Other than to say it is a true Word Installation that should be exhibited as if it were visual art. All knitted with cosmic wool as woolly as my own thinking.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2488#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2490" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2490" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2490" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 5, 2024 at 10:18 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2490" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MY MOTHER IS A COW</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A somewhat shocking story, with many plot-traps I fell into without really worrying that part of me was left in each one of them. A mother as a cow-faced fan or horned oracle, the impotence of dolphins, a stomach eating shark, and much else. But the most haunting thing was the use of ‘gavort’ instead of ‘cavort’. Not a typo as it is used twice at least. And the state of us today: “Those who no longer pretend to know who they are.” Which perhaps harks back to the ‘congenital stupidity’ quote I used above.</p><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2492" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2492" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2492" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 6, 2024 at 3:22 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2492" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ET IN BELLICUS MEDICALIS LUNARUM</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rats, Soviet or not, are bartered as hospital doctors or psychoanalysts of gynaecologists, making me even believe in Serpent’s or Swift’s ‘Modest Proposal’! Or Dr Monopus’ psychological Mansion toilets!</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“In spite of everything, psychology lives in the flesh. And without flesh we would have no patients. Thus, even a bone that talks is worth more than a rat that thinks.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2492#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2493" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2493" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2493" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2024 at 11:50 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2493" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW TO START A PHARMACEUTICAL BUSINESS</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Inter alia, first invite two Mexican dignitaries for a picnic, then have yourself measured for someone else’s grave, and later accept a death casket within a casket for a human the size of a toothbrush as a toothsome moustache. Tasty as a sardine.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2493#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2494" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2494" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2494" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2024 at 12:35 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2494" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SAND CAMEL</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A chastened damascene slamdance (sand camel) for metalheads.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A and B, two boys, construct it, and it eats Old Grandmother up to her own head of umbrella pinions.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A crow wins out.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An aide memoire not a review.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2494#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2495" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2495" style="background-attachment: scroll; 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2495" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2024 at 12:43 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2495" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MR GREGORY’S FLY</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If I issued one of my aide memoires for this two-pager, you would hardly believe it. The title is enough.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can only really understand some of this author’s pieces while asleep.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2495#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2497" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2497" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2497" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2024 at 12:48 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2497" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I READ AND REVIEWED THE NEXT STORY BELOW HERE: <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-big-book-of-modern-fantasy-3/#comment-1137" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-big-book-of-modern-fantasy-3/#comment-1137</a> , AS FOLLOWS…</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2497#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2496" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2496" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2496" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 7, 2024 at 12:46 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2496" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wp-block-image" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="aligncenter" style="clear: both; display: table; margin: 0px auto;"><img alt="33191866-92F2-40B3-B264-F6487041E0AA" class="wp-image-24227" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/33191866-92f2-40b3-b264-f6487041e0aa.jpeg?w=201&h=300" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure></div><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is one of Leonora Carrington’s paintings, that seems perfectly to match her own story below about the combined state of being blessed with fantasy wings and being earthen bounded, and, not only that, but also with the Fra Angelico story above…and with this book’s gestalt so far.</p><div class="wp-block-image" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="alignleft" style="display: table; float: left; margin: 0.5em 1em 0.5em 0px;"><img alt="E03F64A0-0360-4DCF-BB44-E3088F58367D" class="wp-image-24219" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/e03f64a0-0360-4dcf-bb44-e3088f58367d.jpeg?w=113&h=150" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure></div><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A MEXICAN FAIRY TALE<br />by Leonora Carrington </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Pigs have an angel.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Quietly Maria set down the pail of water and walked north towards the Pyramid of the Moon.”</p><div class="wp-block-image" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="alignright" style="display: table; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em;"><img alt="D693BAF2-430C-4315-9150-0B4A7B0A82CF" class="wp-image-24228" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/d693baf2-430c-4315-9150-0b4a7b0a82cf.jpeg?w=150&h=150" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure></div><div class="wp-block-image" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="alignright" style="display: table; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em;"><img alt="7F7BEAA8-AAB4-4403-93D1-27EB4E75181F" class="wp-image-24229" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/7f7beaa8-aab4-4403-93d1-27eb4e75181f.jpeg?w=150&h=150" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure></div><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This tale feels like a Jungian Archetype, one that I have lived through all my life, although I don’t think I have read it before.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The story of a boy called Juan and a free-wheeling audit trail of surreal events in battling a mysogyny with promise of impossible mangoes. An Earth alive wherein one can travel, as through Nemonymous Night. Even being able to feed the Earth. And wherein lives a Black Mole and, in view of this book’s earlier mole king, I was somehow not surprised when it said to Juan: “Do not be afraid, Juan, this is only a first death, and you will be alive again soon.” The scenes with Maria are rhapsodic as well as dark with a hollow man that might have derived from T.S. Eliot. And a dog that brings separated pieces of your body together as gestalt…to ever return to Earth as a God, or Goddess. Perhaps the Mole was right, all along! And just like in the above Pat Murphy…. ”They jumped into the fire and ascended […] to join the Evening Star.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/?replytocom=2496#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2498" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE HAPPY CORPSE STORY</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“; it was practically impossible to tell one from the other. They just looked different.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This last story is the most horrifying of all the stories, as the Happy Corpse’s story that he tells within it from the back of his head like bad breath describes his Father who seems to be ME working in insurance all those years ago and what I had to contend with. This book is persurreally bespoke for everyone’s nightmares, at least once, but probably far more than once.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“… Telephone Hell, where everyone has these apparatuses constantly glued to their lips or ears. This causes great anguish.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">END</p></div></div></li></ol></div></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-10606652865885421492024-02-27T08:50:00.007+00:002024-03-05T10:48:44.735+00:00Stories by Shirley Jackson (3)<p> </p><div class="post-7024 page type-page status-publish hentry" id="post-7024" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry entry-content" style="border: 0px; clear: both; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="wp-block-heading" style="border: 0px; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">COLLOQUY</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘International crisis,’ Mrs Arnold said. ‘Patterns.’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A highly prescient or prophetic vignette of our complicated times today seen as a form of insanity. So many quotable quotes in it and I am surprised nobody is now quoting them as wise homilies. The only far-fetched item in it is Mrs Arnold having her cigarette coolly lighted by her doctor while she is consulting him.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2463#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2465" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2465" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2465" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 22, 2024 at 8:58 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2465" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE BEAUTIFUL STRANGER</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We need things together. Things we like, both of us. Small delicate pretty things. Ivory.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He is not Very I upon returning to his wife and a strained marriage from a business trip and to his two small children, as seen through his wife’s eyes and the sense of her own fading I. A renewal or is it a wishful alternate world? Haunting? Damn yes. No way to explain how it is so utterly haunting as a unique ghost story. But the colours ‘purple and blue and gold’ help by reminding me of what I said about the colours in ‘Flower Garden’ above.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2465#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2467" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2467" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2467" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23, 2024 at 8:56 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2467" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DOROTHY AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND THE SAILORS</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Remembering what my grandmother had told me, that I was always safe if I didn’t lose my head,…”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A well written but take it or leave it tale of two near adolescent girls in interface with the perceived threat of sailors in the harbour of San Francisco. Or is there more to it than meets the I? Is the man a Captain or a mere Marine, a shrivelled God or a full-imagined Wizard of Oz? Who the Wicked Witch of the West? And who is Uncle Oliver?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2467#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2468" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2468" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2468" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23, 2024 at 9:31 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2468" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cross-referenced with ‘I Bought A Little City’ here: <a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1585" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1585</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2468#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2471" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2471" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2471" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 24, 2024 at 1:03 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2471" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ALL SHE SAID WAS YES</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In many ways, merely a workmanlike story about an adolescent girl’s apparent skills in prediction of dark events to neighbours and even to her own parents, only interesting in the vying between the colours red and blue in the text. I think blue won!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2471#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2473" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2473" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2473" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 25, 2024 at 12:53 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2473" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OF COURSE</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Of course not”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs Tylor which is, of course, Taylor without an a, watches her neighbour Mrs Harris and her small son move in next door. And with Mrs T having a daughter about the same age, she is relived they look like ‘nice’ people, until they get talking about Mr Harris who is hiding away while the removal is going on. It is a story not to write home about. Noturally.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2473#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2475" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2475" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2475" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 26, 2024 at 3:06 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2475" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE RENEGADE</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This story was like “cooking doughnuts” equivalent as Mrs Nash doing it, but Mrs Walpole is downtrodden by a new country life and its duties with two kids, and by the housewifely routines and an unresponsive husband, they having just moved here to a close community that sort of ambushes her in a ‘friendly’ way about the Walpole dog called Lady — heaven forfend! — killing chickens in the area: Remedies? — tie a dead chicken round Lady’s neck or shoot Lady or, as the Walpole kids come home with the methods of a dog-collar with the spikes pointing inward not outward. Seems to have moral, but the reader can actually smell the fresh doughnuts with no means to reach them… and the title now seems to imply the neighbourhood was angered and enraged with Lady, not friendly at all.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2477" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2477" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2477" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 27, 2024 at 1:16 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2477" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FAMILY TREASURES</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
This is a deeply syntactical work, satisfyingly al dente as a Henry James text, about a loner girl called Anne at a ‘university’ that seems more like a girls’ boarding school, with dormitories, and Anne’s mother has died and Anne, airbrushed by the other girls, becomes a kleptomaniac where various items in the dormitories go missing …. well, the repercussions are as complex as the prose, and the ending lingers like the best of short stories that should be included in such anthologies as <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/03/penguin-short-story-anthologies-linked-and-listed-to-my-real-time-reviews-of-them/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">THESE</a>.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2477#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2479" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2479" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2479" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 28, 2024 at 3:38 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2479" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Faded my elbow ghost, the mothers-eyed,<br />As, blowing on the angels, I was lost<br />[…] An old, mad man still climbing in his ghost…”<br />— Dylan Thomas</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>A VISIT (for Dylan Thomas) </b></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“from the limits of sight to the limits of sight”<br />This is explicitly a ‘lovely house’ with Jackson’s pastel colors, as Margaret visits this large country house, Carla’s home, on holiday from school where they are friends, and mirrors within mirrors, reflections within reflections, a fan room, and the house within the near-moat of a river, nests within nests of tiles and tapestries, a memory-sourced design of a house-embroidering mother and an officious father and Carla’s older handsome brother who comes, too, later, promising the girls a boating trip that never transpires, along with his friend a ‘black captain’ making the foursome, but the latter male counterpart figure ends up pointing out the accretive entropy in the niches and weaves of what we had, until now, assumed to be an optimally atmospheric Gothic house with all the sweet or creepy cosy trimmings you can imagine of dances, and a tower with a sort of Mrs Rochester in it, an old aunt who casts hindsight glances of aspersion that the sooner the young men went away again, the better, so, gradually, what I assumed to be a lovely house designed by Jackson to contrast with the initially forbidding and ugly Hill House (was that written earlier or later?) makes me look back at my life and while reading of what must be a near-ghost story to reflect the near-moat, and the mischievous angles and initial panoply of pale colours matching the mother with her needlepoint house…. Gorgeously and incrementally ghostly. The ‘Margaret’ / Jackson tile on the floor now with a crack or a tile missing that sets off the spiritual structure with an optimal gestalt of imperfection, whilst before the whole place was TOO perfect. A classic nerve-needling story of romantic innuendo that is unmissable, and now I can safely say, while also climbing in my ghost to some other haunted tower, I have indeed not missed making my own visit to it!</p></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2482" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2482" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2482" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 29, 2024 at 10:56 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2482" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AFTER YOU, MY DEAR ALPHONSE</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A story as a short slice of life of two boys as friends playing at tanks with pieces of wood to kill Japanese soldiers, one boy white and the other black, and the assumptions of the white boy’s mother as to the charity needed for the black one’s family. The boys’ recitative game embodied in the title is the perfect foil to such prejudices.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2482#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2483" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2483" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2483" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 1, 2024 at 12:19 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2483" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE GOOD WIFE</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“— at least Smitty hasn’t married yet, but we never counted <i>her</i>.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Smitty was never smitten, I guess. While her old school friend, Mr Benjamin’s wife Helen – is she mad or is he? Or both? The husband as her deadpan captor, with her in a sort of locked room Yellow Wallpaper scenario, and he in cahoots with servants, telling his wife about letters received addressed to her, but not letting her have the letters themselves. Tantalising truths as gaslighting? She wears a blue bed-jacket most of the time. The Good Wife ironically as Weighted Wifehood. Genevieve, the name of the servant, meaning ‘woman of the family.’ And so we ponder on.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2483#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2485" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2485" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2485" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 3, 2024 at 4:44 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2485" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE DUMMY</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two ladies, Mrs <i>Straw </i>and Mrs <i>Wilkins, </i>in a show restaurant, watch a ventriloquist where the dummy seems to get out of hand. Literally. <i>Sinistral</i>, I guess.<br />Some strange characters in a believable atmosphere as a place of entertainment. Weird and uncanny, too. A ménage à trois sort of ventriloquism, one of them in a low-cut green dress.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2485#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2487" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2487" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2487" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 4, 2024 at 9:52 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2487" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LOUISA, PLEASE COME HOME</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…I had to push and elbow down the counter and finally grab the raincoat I wanted right out of the hands of some old monster…”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A tan raincoat as elbow trigger supreme in a place called Crain, an item of wearing that could be the double for an old blue overcoat later when worn by a different girl, as Louisa Tether runs away with a return train ticket from home and her sister’s wedding and her loving parents who spend the rest of their lives hoping she will return, yes, Louisa running away, indeed, with cool mannered plans to be hidden in plain behaviours and considered garb while the tan raincoat seems to be just such a catalyst until she sheds it and … well, if I tell you what happens, it will spoil this ever-lingering monologue for you. Have you ever thought you are the same person today as you were yesterday? My own plainly worded monologue starts here.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/?replytocom=2487#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2489" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2489" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2489" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 5, 2024 at 9:50 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2489" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A FINE OLD FIRM</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Jackson story that is an open-ended tranche of life, loose ends left untied. This one is about two lady neighbour who, unknowingly till now, have sons who are friends in the army elsewhere, and the cross-referring of the son’s letters and their future careers in the law… and one’s speculation as to what happens next is halted by hindsight of one mother’s older daughter also being present at their discussions and their mending of stockings, and the mess of loose ends left by such sewing on the floor. Sew, what<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><b>!</b></span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THIS REVIEW CONTINUES HERE: </strong><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://etepsed.wordpress.com/6629-2/</a></p></div></div></li></ol></div></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-9363258574104083422024-02-27T08:47:00.007+00:002024-03-07T09:49:51.447+00:00The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (2)<p> </p><div class="post-6622 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-6622" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FOUR<br />2 & 3 </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“With her eyes almost closed she could see Theodora only as a mass of colour sitting on the floor.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A crucial scene, perhaps. I shall concentrate on it despite possible spoilers. E and T alone together. A potential afternoon nap recommended by Dr M, for who knows what the night might bring? A calm before the storm? </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T says to E: “I dislike being with women of no colour.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I mentioned red shoes and toes earlier in my review for no reason at all, now, as disturbingly to E, T paints E’s toes red to make her colourful, too, while E dozes! A squabble later between them about this.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">T: “‘I’m an idiot. Just something frightened me for a minute.’ She stood up and stretched.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3217#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3218" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3218" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3218" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 25, 2024 at 8:56 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3218" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4, 5 & 6</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘If I had a passion for doors,’ he said, ‘or gilded clocks, or miniatures; if I wanted a Turkish corner of my own, I would very likely regard Hill House as a fairyland of beauty.’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is more entitled leisure …<br />“‘If she wants to leave before dark she has to clear away in the morning,’ Theodora said without interest. ‘<i>I’</i>m certainly not going to do it.’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And ends with brandy at 4 a.m. for all 4.<br />In between are some of the most frightening scenes in literature — if you let them. If you remember them.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Aide Memoires…</i></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘Hill House, Hill House, Hill House,’”… someone imitates HH whispering its own name, as if scolding me for calling it a mansion! No more shall I do so.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Black Michael & Clarissa Harlowe.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘Bang’ is the best word for it; it sounds like something children do, not mothers knocking against the wall…’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…wondering what secret terror had been tapped in the others,…”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And not forgetting the intense cold spot outside the nursery.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3218#respond" style="border: 0px; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6<br />FIVE<br />1 </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Now I know why people scream, because I think I’m going to,’</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is where we face, as readers, refrains and repeated incantations of ‘bang’ and knockings on the wall and invasive coldnesses, pervaded by recurrent descriptions as we are enfolded by the book’s text, just as Eleanor is by hugging the house itself. And who wrote the chalk message, come morning, on the wall? Even though, I think we are told who did it. </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And this expresses my own feeling exactly in reading this book…<br />“…we were frightened, certainly, and found the experience unpleasant while it was going on, and yet I cannot remember that I felt in any <i>physical </i>danger;”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No, not ‘unpleasant’, pleasantly unpleasant, more like.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘I could say,’ Eleanor put in, smiling, ‘ “All three of you are in my imagination; none of this is real.” ’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">How many quotation marks I need to insulate what I quote? There is indeed a difference between ghosts and poltergeists. And I think of Eleanor’s childhood ‘stones’ now built to become this house? </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…she wanted to sing and to shout and to fling her arms and move in great emphatic, possessing circles around the rooms of Hill House;”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stones and Hill House: A stillhouse to distil hellishness and loutishness? Or shoutlines, houselines, even holinesses?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3219#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3220" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3220" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3220" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 27, 2024 at 8:44 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3220" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The light reflected from the stained-glass window on the stair landing and made shattered fragments of blue and orange and green on the dark wood of the hall.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This section seemed at first to be a gentle intermission in what I might once have called a MAROON PARTY at the house, although ‘mansion’ would have been a more assonant word here than house in this context , and just as I tripped over myself in so saying, the above colours seemed to become a single different colour, one that was more lethal and liquid, indeed, all over T’s bedroom door and clothes, indeed desecrating T’s bedroom with another worded message, causing E and T to plan sharing a bedroom and clothes as twins or cousins. While we await the arrival of Dr M’s wife ‘the day after tomorrow’, as he put it, while still plugging on with his READING RICHARDSON, now with ‘Sir Charles Grandison’, having presumably leapfrogged ‘Clarissa Harlowe’?</p><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3221" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3221" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3221" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 28, 2024 at 1:19 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3221" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3 & 4</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I would like to hit her with a stick, Eleanor thought, looking down on Theodora’s head beside her chair; I would like to batter her with rocks.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Things take more serious and complex turns as E’s thoughts turn autonomously against herself, and even E’s name is not her own name TO own. And T and E, alone together, hold hands or do they? — at the incessant gurgling of the seemingly child-like voice during a darkness that even a lit light could not disperse. What have I got into here? It was cosy horror, but now it is not? Or am I being punished for calling HH a mansion, when it is not? Or am I simply being punished for taking fiction so seriously beyond its remit of entertainment? Or am I entertaining IT? And by doing so, entertaining myself?</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E: “‘When I <i>am </i>afraid, I can see perfectly the sensible, beautiful not-afraid side of the world, I can see chairs and tables and windows staying the same, not affected in the least, and I can see things like the carefully woven texture of the carpet, not even moving. But when I am afraid I no longer exist in any relation to these things. I suppose because things are <i>not </i>afraid.’”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3221#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3222" style="background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3222" style="background: repeat rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3222" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 29, 2024 at 10:15 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3222" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SIX</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 & 2 </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“; I do not understand words and will not accept them in trade for my feelings;”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some serious thoughts by E in interface with Luke about the nature of humanity and ‘the pathways to the heart’, evoking more of these characters’ personalities than heretofore, while L announces an impossible truth, i.e. he never had a mother. The unearthing of Hugh Crain’s scrapbook for his daughter is a dark eye-opener on how he gaslit her with the threat of Hell. No wonder HH seems to behave as possessing — or being possessed by — more Hell than Heaven. On Leap Year Day today.</p><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3223" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3223" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3223" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 1, 2024 at 9:34 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3223" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They perceived at the same moment the change in the path and each knew then the other’s knowledge of it; Theodora took Eleanor’s arm and, afraid to stop, they moved on slowly, close together, and ahead of them the path widened and blackened and curved.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After the ‘pathways to the heart’ mentioned earlier, T and E have an inchoate Sapphic squabble while walking together into darker realms outside, to the extent the two men worry about where they are. I mentioned, earlier, too, a Maroon Party (not the colour but the isolation) — which is an old term for an extended picnic over days, and lo! — T and E think they see an idyllic family picnic in the woods…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“; the grass was richly, thickly green, the flowers were coloured red and orange and yellow, the sky was blue and gold, and one child wore a scarlet jumper…”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And then, tellingly, ‘half-buried stones’…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…stumbled, sobbing, over half-buried stones and what might have been a broken cup.”<br />Note: a ‘cup of stars’ with which reference this section started.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SEVEN</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1 & 2</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“; books are frequently very good carriers, you know.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Planchettes, too, words being the carriers of ghosts? Whether automatic writing or deliberate. The arrival of the breezy and officious Mrs M (wife of Dr M), with headmaster Arthur Parker as chauffeur, causes an off-putting glitch for the still nervous Luke and the two girls in the flow of events, but this woman and her toady are worth their weight in gold if they are mere spear-carriers, I say. We shall see what the words do write henceforth. I noted amongst the lady’s luggage there was a blue suitcas</p></div></div></li></ol></div></div></li></ol><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3225" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3225" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1873a1; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3225" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 3, 2024 at 8:49 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3225" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Planchette felt very strongly about a nun, John. Perhaps something of the sort—a dark, vague figure,…’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A comic intermission? As Mrs M refers to ‘planchette’ as a christian name of someone she knows, and Merrigot summoned for Arthur or for Nell, and there is pencil talk of walled-in nuns, or even perhaps Lewis’s Monk? Or a plangent echo of the author herself…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“…what I want in all this world is peace, a quiet spot to lie and think, a quiet spot up among the flowers where I can dream and tell myself sweet stories.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3225#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3226" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background: repeat rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mrs M:<br />“…the beings in this house are only waiting for an opportunity to tell their stories and free themselves from the burden of their sorrow.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the opposing view — “if I ever saw a place that had no use for perfect love, it’s Hill House” — prevails with the house structure’s convulsions that have now invented sound-blocking headphones for our Nell with loud discordant Stockhausen from within them…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“; how can these others hear the noise when it is coming from inside my head? I am disappearing inch by inch into this house,..”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did Nell invent these convulsion that the others felt, too, or did the splinter group of Mrs M and Arthur in other rooms with the gauche stories of Mrs M? Mrs M perfect wife to Dr M except, seemingly, for this one vice to trigger such strong hauntings with her dear Planchette of platitudes.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3226#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3227" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3227" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3227" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 5, 2024 at 9:04 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3227" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EIGHT</strong></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1, 2 & 3</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“, but Hill House is not for ever, you know.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Or is it? Eleanor’s silent monologue as narration without being a first person singular. Self-evidently a famous passage of literature-as-truth, without my having read it before. But nobody reads books any more, so how can any of its words be for ever? E’s determination to leave here and go home with T to T’s home, to quell E’s apartness, but there are ghosts even involved outside HH as she is followed by a non-existent couple: Luke and Theo, laughing together, while they were setting up their own maroon party elsewhere. And still E did not receive the message. Luke’s earlier talk of Pan and the house being all globes and “Little soft glass hands, curving out to you, beckoning——“, or was that him at all saying that? His talk of smashing globes when he finally inherited ownership of HH. The twosomes, that of Theo and Luke budding, but, in contrast, why did not Dr M and his wife share a room while she was here visiting at HH? Surely E was not to be remaindered with Arthur? Or abandoned here alone to become herself a ghost of it? But, I have noted for future reference: “…the fluted iridescent candy jar at Theo’s elbow.”</p><ol class="comment-list" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.7em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-3228" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-3228" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-3228" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">March 6, 2024 at 9:07 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/etepsed.wordpress.com/3228" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4 – 8</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘I am Eleanor,’ Theo said, ‘because I am wearing blue. I love my love with an E because she is ethereal. Her name is Eleanor, and she lives in expectation.’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The letter E seems right, though N would do, too, I guess. The lethal Grattan song sung by L is contrasted by the gentle child-like ghost E alone feels towards the end of this section and that ghost’s own song.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But then different comic foils recur with the antics of Mrs M & A & ‘planchette’, the latter supposedly over-sensitive to scepticism — and Mrs D always clearing off on the dot!</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘That pretty Theodora lady is old enough to take care of herself, I’d think, no matter how gay Mr Luke.’”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">***</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E: “She could even hear, with her new awareness of the house, the dust drifting gently in the attics, the wood ageing. […] ….she could not hear the books rotting or rust seeping into the circular iron stairway to the tower.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And, later, I note she could hear the child-like ghost…. “None of them heard it, she thought with joy; nobody heard it but me.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The reader, though, E, does hear it, rest assured.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3228#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-3230" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Theodora was wearing Eleanor’s red sweater. […] ‘We never had our picnic,’…”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">END</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=3230#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-3231" style="border-color: currentcolor; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My past review of the Joan Lindsay novel: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/picnic-at-hanging-rock-joan-lindsay/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/05/03/picnic-at-hanging-rock-joan-lindsay/</a></p></div></div></li></ol></div></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-91356250631519401702024-02-20T15:00:00.003+00:002024-02-23T12:30:07.022+00:00The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (1)<p> </p><article class="post-46941 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-46941" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">1 & 2</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…her friend had cruelly ripped to shreds the volume of Alfred de Musset which had been a birthday present from Theodora, taking particular pains with the page which bore Theodora’s loving, teasing inscription.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">If you want to know about the backstories of the four ghost hunters to this country house — that I shall deem to be a mansion, whether I’m right or wrong in calling it so — it will serve you merely to read the first two sections of the text. Suffice to say I am already captivated by the prospect of these characters and the elegance of their portrayal by the author as the prevailing power, these ghost hunters being the four senses of the mansion’s ‘body verbal’, with me the reader as the fifth. The mansion itself, being the sixth?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28164#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-18T13:09:48+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 18, 2024 at 1:09 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28168" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">3 & 4</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">‘It’s half my car.’</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">….the refrain, as Eleanor of the Stones, as I understand her backstory, starts her defiant journey to this book’s mansion called Hill House, a route mapped out under the tutelage of Dr. Montague, defiant, that is, in taking her sister’s half of their precious co-shared car on a winding trip. After inadvertently tripping up an old woman and her shopping, Eleanor enters her own sought-after fairyland of hope as described by some of the most plainly elegant and magical prose ever.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“; she might make her home for ever in East Barrington or Desmond or the incorporated village of Berk;”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I am the Berk, I guess, but I trust she will allow me to follow her, and also meet the folk she meets on the way.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Now what was here, she wondered, what was here and is gone, or what was going to be here and never came?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Towards another refrain between the lips of a little girl she meets en route…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">‘She wants her cup of stars.’</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">But later in foul Hillsdale near her journey’s end toward Hill House, a waitress woman there, as if grown from a girl who once had her own singular hopes of a bespoke fairyland, says to our Eleanor…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">‘Good luck to you. I hope you find your house.’</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Had E defied Dr M by mentioning Hill House in Hillsdale, I wonder?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28168#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-19T13:32:04+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 19, 2024 at 1:32 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28172" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>5</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">TWO</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">1</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Hill House, she thought, you’re as hard to get into as heaven.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Ironic, I say, when you realise that the word ‘hellish’ can be formed from the letters of ‘Hill House’. The relevance of Eleanor Vance’s meeting with caretaker Dudley at the almost prehensile gate and its padlock should hardly be surprising in hindsight, i.e. that — when she sees our mansion for the first time, with its inferred towering shapes and turreted appendages — it seems <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">actually</em> prehensile, as if workers rushed the job in building whatever pronoun is suitable other than ‘it’ turned out to be, where the caretaker and his wife state they will not stay after dark, and Eleanor at last reaches her allotted ‘blue room’ with many fears and regrets that she had come at all, indeed, the first of the four to arrive.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Just as ‘hellish’ is formed from the very reason that the word ‘house’ is used rather than ‘mansion’ when in interface with ‘hill’, there can be no doubt with the easy explicit way the words ‘vile’ and ‘evil’ are deployed in this text regarding whatever place Eleanor has now reached with “somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky,…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28172#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-20T14:56:32+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 20, 2024 at 2:56 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28178" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">2</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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There were blue dimity curtains over the two windows, which looked out over the roof of the verandah on to the lawn, and a blue-figured rug on the floor, and a blue spread on the bed and a blue quilt at the foot. The walls, dark woodwork to shoulder height, were blue-figured paper above, with a design of tiny blue flowers, wreathed and gathered and delicate.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Reminds me of the all-embracing blue bowl and blue curtains in this author’s ‘Flower Garden’ story reviewed yesterday, and the trope of an inimical figure in a blue suit depicted by two other stories by her as earlier reviewed. And when she meets the more confidently effusive and perhaps Sapphic Theodora, upon the latter’s arrival at this grim mansion, these two girls slightly remind me of Y and I in the Jackson story I reviewed earlier this morning entitled ‘The Story We Used To Tell’, with mirror, window et al. Theodora has a green room, and they discover they are so easy to get on with each other, they surely must be cousins with the same hundred aunts and uncles! </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Anyway, let’s get out of here and go exploring; I would very much like to get this roof off from over my head.” </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">They venture outside and see where they are to stay in the setting of the overbearing hills that gives the appalling place its name. Hill House, not Mountain Mansion. But I shall still defiantly call it a mansion. And there is a brook…</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28181" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28181" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/#comment-28181" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-21T13:02:14+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 21, 2024 at 1:02 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28181" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THREE</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">1, 2 & 3</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘Now that I know which of us is me,’ Luke said, ‘let me identify myself further.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Luke the young man as a hyperactive member of the family owning HH. Word games as the four meet up, including the bearded instigator, Dr. M, and we gradually get to know them beyond their own mischievous mis-self-casting as “A courtesan, a pilgrim, a princess, and a bullfighter. Hill House has surely never seen our like.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">We gradually get to know HH, too, on the brink of Dr M telling the others (and us) what its backstory has been. All of us urged not to flee from it under darkness. If ‘it’ is the correct pronoun. And the need for…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Door stops.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28181#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“….warped, by half-remembered spooky stories which belong more properly to a — let me see — a marshmallow roast.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Yet, we wonder about the potential importance of such an image! As the four participants get to know each other better in front of a cheery fire, as well as helping the reader to know them better, while they have found out nothing about the reader. Who knows how important that may turn out to be.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Matters concerning toes and red shoes, as Eleanor calls herself “individually an I”, and I had no idea this was going to happen when reviewing the same author’s ’Beautiful Stranger’ story earlier this morning <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2465" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>. Which now takes on a new relevance of synergy. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">But who says the following I have forgotten, as has the Jackson passage with another ‘cup of stars’ recently reviewed having escaped my memory, too. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“; once I had a blue cup with stars painted on the inside; when you looked down into a cup of tea it was full of stars.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">But it is Theodora who touches Eleanor’s hand, not the other way round. As we hear Dr M’s description of HH’s history, viz. Hugh Crain, the two sisters et al. I recommend you reading section 4 full of such details. But I shall mention here Dr M’s reference to reading PAMELA by Samuel Richardson as a soporific; I can confirm I never found it such! His references to Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne are well taken, though. Particularly Sterne’s TRISTRAM SHANDY which may or may not have some bearing on this real-time review.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The four of them have different uniform coloured rooms…making Jackson a writer about themed colours as well as ‘ghosts’ etc., as I have already discovered with her stories.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘Yellow,’ the doctor said, surprised. ‘Pink,’ Luke said with a dainty gesture of distaste.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And amidst the omniscient description of differing POVs of various characters, some distantly absent as well those present….</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Around them the house brooded, settling and stirring with a movement that was almost like a shudder.”</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28192" style="border: 0px; 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color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FOUR</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">1</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Does she [Theodora] think I wouldn’t bathe unless she left a full tub for me? […] Eleanor was thinking that it had been a very long time since she had dressed to look like a stray sunbeam, or been so hungry for breakfast, or arisen so aware, so conscious of herself,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">It’s raining and she has slept like a log, and one wonders if to share the same bath water was fashionable in those days, just as were their leisure and sherry at lunch, with Mrs Dudley skivvying for them, albeit ‘clearing off’ at 10 after breakfast as if HH was a fearful or fearsome place at all times not just at night, and that the glasses belonged on the shelf was a way of life. Like losing the dining-room as well as one’s balance in a titling world, with slight mis-angled angles leading to a gestalt of all these things as a giant tipping-point? Doors shutting whatever the door stops used, or was that Mrs D surreptitiously making sure that things were equally sure. I reviewed ‘The HOUSE of Leaves’ a years or so ago <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/house-of-leaves-by-mark-z-danielewski/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>. Which resonates with ‘leaving’ doors open and written signs pinned up so as to get yourself back on course in this seemingly huge dizzy, crazy house at the carnival.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘You will never believe this now, of course,’ the doctor said, ‘but three minutes ago these doors were wide open. We left them open so you could find your way. We sat here and watched them swing shut just before you called. Well. Good morning.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘Stuff yourself very full of kippers,’ Luke said. ‘Then it will be impossible to feel anything at all.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">‘“Actually, the ground floor is laid out in what I might almost call concentric circles of rooms;…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘The linen,’ Mrs Dudley said, ‘belongs in the linen drawers in the dining-room. The silver belongs in the silver chest. The glasses belong on the shelves.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A deerhead belongs on a wall, a smelly Library in a tower,</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Of course the result of all these tiny aberrations of measurement adds up to a fairly large distortion in the house as a whole. […] a masterpiece of architectural misdirection.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And what of the statue “…that figure in the centre, that tall, undraped—good heavens!—masculine one, that’s old Hugh, patting himself on the back because he built Hill House, and his two attendant nymphs are his daughters.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Were extra doors cut into the kitchen for Mrs D by her husband? Did Dr M give a door a ‘vicious kick’? Or was it Luke? I can’t remember. It is as if this very review itself teeters upon strange angles that the text has created within the reviewer’s mind. Hidden corners not yet turned. A tipping-point not yet reached within the mansion of my roofless head? Aitch Aitch, whispering in my ears. And what of “…your Hill House legs”?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/17/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28192#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28193" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-23T12:28:05+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23, 2024 at 12:28 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28193" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THIS REVIEW CONTINUES HERE: </strong><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://etepsed.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/</a></p></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-40424542374010540412024-02-20T12:24:00.004+00:002024-02-25T13:41:58.756+00:00Stories by Donald Barthelme (2)<p> <img alt="IMG_8358" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46885" data-attachment-id="46885" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPad Air (3rd generation)","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1707757210","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.3","iso":"320","shutter_speed":"0.033333333333333","title":"","orientation":"1","latitude":"51.801505555556","longitude":"1.1886333333333"}" data-image-title="IMG_8358" data-large-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg?w=624" data-medium-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg?w=300" data-orig-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg" data-orig-size="2287,1638" data-permalink="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/img_8358/#main" height="1638" sizes="(max-width: 2287px) 100vw, 2287px" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg" srcset="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg 2287w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg?w=150&h=107 150w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg?w=300&h=215 300w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg?w=768&h=550 768w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/img_8358.jpeg?w=1024&h=733 1024w" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 6px 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 5px; border: 3px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 6px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: auto; margin: 1em 0px; max-width: 100%; orphans: 3; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom; widows: 3; width: auto;" width="2287" /></p><article class="post-46866 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-donald-barthelme" id="post-46866" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">CONTINUED FROM HERE: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28139" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28139</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Gradual alphabetical listing of my Barthelme reviews: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/my-reviews-of-stories-by-donald-barthelme/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/15/my-reviews-of-stories-by-donald-barthelme/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Previous reviews of older or classic books: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/reviews-of-older-books/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A MANUAL FOR SONS</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Some fathers have only one arm. Others have an extra arm, in addition to the normal two, hidden inside their coats.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is, of course, a substantive tour de force, a recitative and incantation for Fathers, that needs reading aloud especially by old fathers like me. Peppered with political incorrectness, sometimes shocking. Priapic and utterly something else that can only be defined by an oblique reading of this mad monologue. Addressing the sons of these fathers, and what can be done to match the painful humanity in all of us. From the ‘father fang’ to the javelin of an elbow to the gestalt of All-Father to the dandling of daughters, even though the work is the missing spoke for the still turning wheel of sons. From the ‘<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What we’re teaching our sons?</em>’ of Owen Booth <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/06/04/%EF%BF%BCwhat-were-teaching-our-sons-owen-booth/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a> to (in this Barthelme work’s final sentence) the Anti-Natalism of Thomas Ligotti <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/le-noeud-de-ligotti/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Will he again place nails in your mother, in her elbows…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28142#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CHABLIS</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She looks most lovable when she’s wet, when she’s just had a bath and her blond hair is all wet and she’s wrapped in a beige towel.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Seems to be a precursor to the above story’s ‘dandling’, when the daughter is now much younger and her mother wants her husband, the narrator, to buy the daughter a dog, but the narrator remains cynically matter-of-fact in his straitened finances and drinks Chablis and smokes while others run for exercise outside. A short exercise in deadpan wisdom from the point of view of a ‘man’ as black sheep, after ditching a car. Gives more of a slant on 20th century social history than banks of books. Change is bliss?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28145#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A SHOWER OF GOLD</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The absurdity is punishing me for not believing in it.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Peterson sounds a bit like the word ‘President’ as in the US President, when US Presidents were sane. Peterson is a jobbing sculptor who is to appear in a TV show called “Who Am I?” A tale of extreme existentialism, nausea, and the power of absurdity beyond even the persistent pursuit of the process I once called Gestalt Real-Time Reviewing. A tale involving chopping works of art into two with a sledge hammer, a cat-piano the absurd description of which defies disbelief, a nice old lady who places a blue sticker on Peterson’s elbow, and much else. Somehow, a communal psychotherapy of all its readers with each other, in collusion with this tale or vice versa. And it all seems to work!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…’and my father a shower of gold.’”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28147#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-15T08:48:03+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 15, 2024 at 8:48 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28150" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OVERNIGHT TO MANY DISTANT CITIES</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…’R.H.I.P.!’ or, Rank Has Its Privileges.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">…as doth death, I guess. A sort of inverse Droit du Seigneur? </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A monologue of the odd goings on in various named cities, sometimes with his wife and daughter? And sometimes not? About love, an army of generals, a Matisse and a Schwitters, and much else, if not, explicitly, the book by the Comte de Lautréamont!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Again in Paris, the hotel was the Montalemebert .</em> . .”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28150#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/#comment-28153" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-15T13:46:14+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 15, 2024 at 1:46 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28153" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">REBECCA</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The tale of Rebecca Lizard who can’t change her name for Kafkaesque reasons, and she is a ‘lesbian’ whose lover, Hilda, admits, one day, she dislikes Rebecca’s slightly greenish skin, another factor than can’t be changed for genetic reasons. A tale that deals with the prevailing nature of love whatever its ups and downs. Told in a leisurely way of lizards and ‘lesbians’, pork with red cabbage, plus the revelatory edge of experimental prose that is “tattooed upon the warm tympanic page.” Indeed, HILDA IN REBECCA has INERADICABLE tattooed, I have just discovered. Or vice versa.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28153#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-16T10:36:41+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 16, 2024 at 10:36 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28157" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SCHOOL</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It was an unfortunate thing, the kid’s name was Kim and maybe we adopted him too late or something.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">If you take the comma away, the above sentence takes on its intended meaning, I feel, as if a name’s assonance could make a refugee kid to be adopted nearer being killed than any other kid? In this school of our own kids, everything seems to turn moribund. From the snakes they fed to the herbs they watered. Even pupils and their relations liable to such fell fates. The ending made me laugh out loud. A rare event.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28157#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-17T10:15:20+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 17, 2024 at 10:15 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28161" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ARIA</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Amazingly, having just read (<a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/#comment-28159" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>) an hour ago THE BUS by Shirley Jackson, this short Joycean monologue about childhood with all manner of haunting obliquities, of subsequent adult tethering, is an uncanny resemblance. Even the children are “Out of scale. They came and went. Doors banging.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Did the bus driver in THE BUS sleep with the Harper as minstrel of the Aria while asleep?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28161#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-18T09:13:18+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 18, 2024 at 9:13 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28166" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE BABY</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The baby that relentlessly tears pages from books. I never finished it. Although I wanted to. Sometimes I think readers of certain books need protective goggles.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28166#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-19T09:05:45+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 19, 2024 at 9:05 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28170" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AFFECTION</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…he’s crushed to learn that she [Claire] is married to Sarah.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A story from 1987 about a triangle that presages our own times. With fortune telling shrink and a piano player who seems immune. Written in confused staccato and then non-staccato paragraphs like our lives now. It means nothing but, in hindsight, another reader might find everything ‘they’ know in it.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Maybe it’s everywhere, Claire said. A pandemic.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28170#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-20T11:04:21+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 20, 2024 at 11:04 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28174" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">OPENING</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The growth of a play in the playwright’s eyes as it is being rehearsed towards becoming a critical success, with all the niceties of costume and pre-curtain-rising music, and the gems of lines to be refrained forever more. Like Oscar Wilde’s moon and its sensed atmosphere in different eras. And his next play is about someone called Luna. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">O, Penning a Play is like making human life centre stage as human life’s sole purpose.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/?replytocom=28174#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 21, 2024 at 9:33 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/1582" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PORCUPINES AT THE UNIVERSITY
</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Four to five thousand of them with their head wrangler porcupine but faced by a gatling gun when arriving at the university. </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Are they significant?”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/?replytocom=1582#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Cross-referenced here with Leonora Carrington: <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2464" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/leonora-carrington/#comment-2464</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/?replytocom=1583#respond" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE DEATH OF EDWARD LEAR</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We gather by invitation for an enactment of the eponymous death, no nonsense and no frills, as he acts petulantly. We all behave thus when seen to be dying, as none of us are at all <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">rewarded</em> for the lives we have lived. As old men ourselves, we scorn mouldy Tennyson for what he is quoted saying in this story.<br />The Death of Edward LEAR is REAL.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/?replytocom=1584#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-1585" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-1585" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1585" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23, 2024 at 9:27 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/1585" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I BOUGHT A LITTLE CITY</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I hate bongo drums. I started to tell him to stop playing those goddamn bongo drums but then I said to myself, No, that’s not right. You got to let him play his goddamn bongo drums if he feels like it, it’s part of the misery of<br />democracy, to which I subscribe.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A city that grows under this Wizard of Oz (see my Jackson story reviewed by chance half an hour ago <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/shirley-jackson/#comment-2467" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>) like a jigsaw of the Mona Lisa. He kills off six thousand dogs, thank all the gods! Irony or not.<br />I have read something like the following passage in the last few days in Barthelme or elsewhere (S. Jackson or L. Carrington?) but I can’t find it, and, until I do, I may not read any more Barthelme… You see, who, is ‘she’? And can any city be pretty?</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“If each piece of ground was like a piece of this-here puzzle, and the tree line on each piece of property followed the outline of a piece of the puzzle — well, there you have it, QED and that’s all <i>she</i> wrote.” My italics.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/?replytocom=1585#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-1586" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-1586" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1586" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 23, 2024 at 9:37 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/1586" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Found it…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Morning, noon, and night. Of course when they’re rung you have to be pretty quick at getting out of the way. You get hit in the head by one of these babies and that’s all she wrote.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Quoted in my CITY OF CHURCHES review here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28136" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28136</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/?replytocom=1586#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-1587" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-1587" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1587" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 24, 2024 at 2:13 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/1587" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AT THE TOLSTOY MUSEUM</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">An interface between words and artwork that made me think of Magritte mixed with an AI black and white sketcher, although it is neither. Oh, a smidgin of Warhol, too. Tolstoy’s story of the Bishop and the three hermits was inspiring within such an image-text installation as Tall Story.<br />Cf my review of ‘The Three Hunters’ by Leonora Carrington yesterday.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/?replytocom=1587#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-1588" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-1588" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/donald-barthelme/#comment-1588" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">February 25, 2024 at 1:40 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/1588" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There will now be an indefinite interval in my reading of Barthelme.</p></div></div></li></ol></div></footer></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-6433555039858160322024-02-20T12:16:00.004+00:002024-02-20T12:16:58.313+00:00Lautréamont, Shirley Jackson (1), Donald Barthelme (1)<p> </p><p><br /></p><article class="post-46821 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-46821" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Anyone who messages or emails me privately about how these three writers were first recently connected will receive a free copy of one of my published books by independent publishers and as signable by me. Certain to be a good investment, if I can be immodest enough to predict. Alternatively, you might opt for an anthology that I edited and published for other authors’ work. One example: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/nemonymous-ten/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/nemonymous-ten/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My decision is final as to the correct answer to that question, and, should you indeed get it right, I cannot guarantee which book I send you, but I shall try to fulfil your wishes. This offer is only relevant as long as available supplies of my previous publications exist.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">NOT available: GAUCHE STORIES, WEIRDMONGER and the novel NEMONYMOUS NIGHT.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> If it is the rare LAST BALCONY hardback collection or the NULL IMMORTALIS, CERN ZOO, CONE ZERO and ZENCORE anthologies, that you choose, their being so heavy in weight, I shall be charging some of the postage costs overseas from the UK. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When I read these books by Lautréamont, Barthelme and Jackson, my thoughts on them will appear in the comment stream below….</em></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">( For above connection ‘conundrum’, my email is shown here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/05/d-f-lewis-books-for-down-bodying-sale/?fbclid=IwAR3xG5muMrG5S-aSCes6QjPp4P6kpFQ-y7sZTLJioS2AbVkpeB1w_pW-Oak_aem_AWQfuqMkmRo_mNdv4NLaV4fCa--dd0QVJUw1CU9oh5B7bXQdqvepJBuzDh65qD-dCTQ" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28127" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-09T14:40:55+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 9, 2024 at 2:40 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28127" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It is not right that everyone should read the pages which follow; only a few will be able to savour this bitter fruit with impunity. Consequently, shrinking soul, turn on your heels and go back before penetrating further into such uncharted, perilous wastelands.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">— <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Maldoror</em>, Comte de Lautréamont</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">In many ways, having now started to Dabble in the Diabelli. of this ‘evil’ book, I would be ashamed to have been witnessed reading it on a train. But I can see elements of the ‘WEIRDMONGER’ stories and other dark gauchenesses of mine in it, and I protect myself by creating prophylactic thoughts of ‘irony’ and ‘unreliable narrator’ in its connection, and recognising the amount of influence it apparently had on famous artists and writers that followed Lautréamont, except he had no influence on me, because I had not read this shocking work till today!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have read hardly any Shirley Jackson before. And my son told me recently that I need at least to read her short stories. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I can’t recall reading any Donald Barthelme before today. Thanks to Mike Sauve for once letting me know that Barthelme said that the author is “a sort of lightning rod for an accumulation of atmospheric disturbances, a St. Sebastian absorbing in his tattered breast the arrows of the Zeitgeist…” — ‘a role osmotic with the critic’, someone else said, in relation to this quote. And the writer Rhys Hughes has been praising his work for many years.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I intend to read (and review below) some stories by Barthelme and Jackson over the coming period, starting with Barthelme’s THE SANDMAN, mainly because I very recently reviewed ‘The Sandman’ by E.T.A. Hoffman here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/the-sandman/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/the-sandman/</a> — I’ll leave you to decide if there is any linkage, other than the fact that I read the Hoffman because of an academic book by Nicholas Royle called THE UNCANNY (here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/</a>) that dealt with Sigmund Freud’s essay called ‘The Uncanny’ that in turn dealt in detail with Hoffman’s ‘The Sandman’!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-09T14:44:11+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 9, 2024 at 2:44 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28128" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE SANDMAN by Donald Barthelme</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Susan’s perception that America has somehow got hold of the greed ethic and that the greed ethic has turned America into a tidy little hell is not, I think, wrong.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is a letter seemingly from a man to his girl friend’s ‘shrink’ about her decision to give up paying for the cost of such psychotherapy in favour of buying a piano. The question remains – who is the inferred automaton? I vote for the letter writer who ended up voting for the piano!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28128#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28129" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28129" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-09T16:12:59+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 9, 2024 at 4:12 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28129" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE INTOXICATION by Shirley Jackson </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">”’I don’t really think it’s [the world] got much future’, she said, ‘at least the way we’ve got it now.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Seems, by chance, to echo the quote I have already used for Barthelme’s Sandman above! A short tale of an older man at a party talking to the host’s seventeen year old daughter in the kitchen. A then prophecy of the lies of later populism? — ”’Gallia est omnia [sic] divisa in partes tres,’ his host said…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28129#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28132" style="border: 0px; 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padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-10T09:47:34+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 10, 2024 at 9:47 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28132" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE BALLOON by Donald Barthelme</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“….we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A tale of a balloon that spreads like a subversive canopy across blocks of the city, eventually subsuming the sky, with all questions channelled into a personal romantic problem that had tethered it there in the first place. Maybe it was created by whoever wrote about it, in retroactive narration, here in this story? Many people found it calming and therapeutic to walk under the shadow of its greys and browns. I consider it to be an iconic story, but far more amorphous than any such icone could otherwise be considered to be.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28132#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28133" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28133" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It occurred to her that perhaps she ought to not to wear the blue silk dress; it was too plain, almost severe, and she wanted to be soft, feminine.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Like Barthelme’s balloon at a wedding about to be punctured? The soft canopy of nightmare spreads as the woman awaits her bridegroom, a tall man in a blue suit, and she worries about her dress for the wedding, after a fitful sleep and now a coffee, searches the street for him, asks others whether they have seen him, and there is something about unsuitable chrysanthemums… and a soon-to-be horrific moment with a rat to airbrush because the ending has still to be reached, before her print dress caught and tore….</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My review of Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/28361/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/06/13/28361/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Mt reviews of other horror stories of a similar ilk: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/separate-horror-stories-from-many-years-ago/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/separate-horror-stories-from-many-years-ago/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; 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-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28136" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-40 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="40" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=40&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=40&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=60&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=80&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=120&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=160&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28136" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-11T09:04:00+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 11, 2024 at 9:04 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28136" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE CITY OF CHURCHES by Donald Barthelme</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The secret is in the end of this story about a town made up of nothing but churches, as a car-rental salesperson called Cecilia speaks to an estate agent for accommodation…but the secret itself can only be solved by an exchange of conversation midway through:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“What a view!” Mr. Phillips exclaimed. “Come here and look.”</em></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Do they actually ring these bells?” Cecelia asked.</em></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Three times a day,” Mr. Phillips said, smiling.</em></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Morning, noon, and night. Of course when they’re rung you have to be pretty quick at getting out of the way. You get hit in the head by one of these babies and that’s all she wrote.”</em></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Beware Spoilers-in-hindsight.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28136#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); 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padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-11T10:03:52+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 11, 2024 at 10:03 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28137" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">CHARLES by Shirley Jackson</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With the third week of kindergarten Charles was an institution in our family; the baby was being a Charles when she cried all afternoon; Laurie did a Charles when he filled his wagon full of mud and pulled it through the kitchen; even my husband, when he caught his elbow in the telephone cord and pulled telephone, ashtray, and a bowl of flowers off the table, said, after the first minute, “Looks like Charles.”</em></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This the story of little boy Laurie’s stories to his parents about ‘fresh’ Charles, each new story told by Laurie after he returns from kindergarten each day. In fact, the tales of Charles’ misdeeds in the classroom grow far more from Charles simply being ‘fresh’ in a negative way to growing grimmer and grimmer, until we receive a glimmer of truth at the end. It may be no coincidence that CHARLES is an anagram of CLASHER and that HELLRAISER is embedded in both boy’s names together. Perhaps Laurie is nearly unreal? By the way, I shall now call my left elbow by the name of Charles. </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/?replytocom=28137#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28139" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28139" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-11T12:09:41+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 11, 2024 at 12:09 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28139" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">PLEASE NOTE:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My further reviews of Shirley Jackson stories here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/</a></strong></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/#comment-28140" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-11T12:15:35+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 11, 2024 at 12:15 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28140" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">PLEASE NOTE:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My further reviews of Donald Barthelme stories here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-donald-barthelme-2/</a></strong></p></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-58870854183485242622024-02-20T12:13:00.003+00:002024-02-20T12:13:43.747+00:00Stories by Shirley Jackson (2)<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">Continued from here:</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"> </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #dc3022; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 3; outline: currentcolor; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/work-by-the-comte-de-lautreamont-donald-barthelme-and-shirley-jackson/</a></p><article class="post-46863 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-shirley-jackson" id="post-46863" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE TOOTH</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“He was wearing a blue suit and he looked tall; she could not focus her eyes any more.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is probably one of the most effective anxiety-horror stories ever — pent up and unputdownable. As a woman travels by bus to a dentist in far off New York (why travel so far in such an emergency unless the whole world is tantamount to a dentist-desert as this country is now where I am reading it!) with toothache so painful that it makes her feel ALL TOOTH, and there is many a slip between cup and lip as the stages of reaching her appointment unfolds, while stalked by someone called Jim who seems to dream of places that are not deserts at all!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I felt she was a bodily vehicle for the tooth as the bus was a vehicle for her, and the clincher was that Jim seems to be the same tall man in a blue suit as in THE DAEMON LOVER!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Terrifying! Still is. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I can’t even see my face in the mirror, let alone recognise whether it is still me.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28141#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE POSSIBILITY OF EVIL</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘And good morning to you, too, Mr Lewis,’ Miss Strangeworth said at last.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">It felt as if she were saying good morning to me at last, indeed, after I had ignored her and her creator for so many years, me now being 76 and Miss Strangeworth 71. But then I read about her and her prize roses in a small community where everyone liked her. Yet she harboured a ‘strangeworth’ of obsessive suspicions as well as varicoloured stationery…</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28144#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28146" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/#comment-28146" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-13T11:44:02+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 13, 2024 at 11:44 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28146" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MY LIFE WITH R.H. MACY</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A psychologically terrifying initiation for a young lady starting work at Macy’s, full of paperwork and carbon paper in triplicate etc, customers with various paying systems, endless sets of complex numbers and abbreviated codes in alphabetical letters. Seems somehow ever more terrifying in a book containing THE LOTTERY! I noted she laddered her stocking, too. Each reader fighting within ‘their’ own Tontine to comprehend each story separately as well as in each bespoke random order of context?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28146#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28148" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/#comment-28148" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-14T09:55:39+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 14, 2024 at 9:55 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28148" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE WITCH</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“He [the old man in a blue suit] looked down at the little boy and nudged him with an elbow and he and the little boy laughed.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A mother, and her four year old son called Johnny and her baby daughter, on a train journey, where Johnny accosts her with childish questions and, later, he issues blatant lies, after the stranger, an old man in a blue suit, enters the carriage and verbally abuses Johnny with a tale about when he (the man) was extremely cruel to his own sister. I thought the story should have been called THE WHICH? </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28148#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28151" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/#comment-28151" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-15T09:17:53+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 15, 2024 at 9:17 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28151" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT A THOUGHT</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Never go astray from using an ashtray, they say…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">…especially in the gratuitous decision of sudden murder of one’s husband.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A truly chilling study in boredom and a deadpan depiction to break it. Best to keep to gin rummy, I say, but I say it too late.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28151#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28154" style="border: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">AFTERNOON IN LINEN</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Everyone dressed in linen, with a sort of Alice-like teatime feel. The little girl, an almost-narrator, is encouraged by her grandmother to read her poems aloud to another lady in the room and her little son who had been showing off his playing of the piano. Is it a coincidence that LIE is embedded in LINEN after NooN?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28154#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28156" style="border: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ELIZABETH</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…one chair, with one book and one ashtray,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I wonder what she is going to do with the ashtray, mentioned unnoticeably at least three times in this long, constructively boring story or novelette, one full of rain; it could have been called WALLS THAT NEED TO BE PAINTED or simply RAIN up front, but Maugham already had that title even though titles are free to use, even Elizabeth named after Bowen or Taylor the fiction writers, because this particular Elizabeth is a literary agent for fiction writers, who spends her day thinking of the grey starting in her hair, the men who ever come down the stairs seeming afraid of something , and thinking of her own dress mode at work and when at leisure, whether to tart up her own flat, and the men she can use to further her confused designs, and her elderly parents whom she can snub by telephone, and her sad accommodation with people who leave skis in the hall for others to trip over, a time when people ‘lighted’ cigarettes, as they often did, an elevator in an office block with a gossipy elevator attendant, a place where nobody did any real work what with office politics and virtual partitions in a ‘fearful old building’ that did not act as real walls at all, later explicitly elbowing people on buses, i.e. not as they do today often at arm’s length on a Business Zoom, but in those days holding long romantic luncheons between work sessions, and switching personnel between blousy secretaries, writing business letters that never get fully written, and quibbling over who has the power to hire and fire in the literary agency where their best customer is a ‘minister’ who demands a book of his poems to be published! I nearly used the ashtray on myself after reading this story in a single attritional sitting.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28156#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28159" style="border: 0px; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE BUS</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It had clearly been an old mansion once,… […] … it needs paint and tightening all round and possibly a new roof…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Miss Harper travels on a pervasively rainy night in a dirty old bus, with a grumpy driver who claims he is not an alarm clock, and other passengers blurred and soft speaking, and someone behind her who says they are running away from home. She is put off in a strange place, not her own home town, and she eventually finds an ex-mansion that seems to have echoes of her own childhood home with prehensile wooden toys…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">It is a great scary story with an oblique loop of déjà vu and ‘fairyland colours’, that I am glad I have now read by the skin of my teeth in catching its late bus, astonished that I have not read hardly any Shirley Jackson before. Especially as my own work has been compared recently by an independent source to an amalgam of Lautréamont, Barthelme and Jackson! It has now stirred me to order a copy of THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE to read for the first time, too. I’ve not read Barthelme or Lautréamont before, either! </p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28159#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: outside; 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font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MEN WITH THEIR BIG SHOES</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…Mrs Anderson, all elbows and red face,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">An insidious tale of a ‘happy’ young pregnant wife in her new proud house, impulsively employing Mrs A as maid. Is it the men with big shoes that leave stains on the floor or women with their prying eyes who leave worse accretions on the soul?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Whether shoo off or shoo in, this story lingers.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28165#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-19T08:33:59+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 19, 2024 at 8:33 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28169" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FLOWER GARDEN</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Somehow I always make my blue bowl the center of the room…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Blue curtains, too. A difficult story of racial relations, but fundamentally nothing has changed since that era. The story of the young Mrs Winning and the older Mrs Winning, the former’s mother in law, of the man who is husband and son, the children, and a woman who moves into the cottage down the road where the younger Mrs Winning had once had an ambition to live and cultivate its flower garden instead of living in the big house with her mother in law, and the younger Mrs W befriends that cottage woman, and their two respective sons become friends, until the woman in the cottage employs a black man with a scythe and his young half-caste son to help cultivate the garden, and the expected repercussions in such a community at such a time ensue….</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">But I have been trying to fathom the cottage woman’s pervasive blue bowl, seeming to make the story have something to which one can attach the mind as hub. Colours mentioned for various things, even platform shoes, and the blue of the bowl is like silver. The variously coloured flowers, and blue as a neutral area between black and white skin, even though such white derives from pink? A ‘coloured’ and an explicit use of the N word by one of the children. Until a thunderstorm pins down the tulips, a ‘clinging’ in the eponymous cottage garden by a neighbour’s tree branch… Can any of us ever “come back and be one of the nice people again”? The earlier mentioned ‘Queen Anne’s lace’ or ‘garter snake’, notwithstanding!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/stories-by-shirley-jackson-2/?replytocom=28169#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28173" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-20T09:52:09+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 20, 2024 at 9:52 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28173" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE STORY WE USED TO TELL</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A most disturbing trapped-behind-the-glass-of-a-painting story in a room with only that painting in it in a dark mansion, a mansion as also depicted in the painting — ‘Y’ and ‘I‘ telling each other this story as young ladies but what is the exact nature of this story of a story and what old man wanted to hold a ball for them each night in such a deserted place? And who is the old woman in it other than Y and I as one, I wonder? 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Pollymina and Abi? Or two other lost children? You will discover when you read this book.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I may be biased but I somehow feel, carried in my own water, as the expression goes, that I have something important to consider vis à vis this huge book. Difficult to generalise, to pin down, to evaluate or even to transcend it beyond its own tentative certainty, it begs to be read again and again on several levels. I know — from when this author was writing it in 2011 until late last year — that they had read very little of my own fiction work, and, not surprisingly, it has in fact turned out to be entirely distinct on its own terms with, just as one example, its unique italic portals. Meanwhile, it has strongly appealed to my narrative sensibilities since first reading it in the last few weeks in its completed form.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The first third of the next section headed ‘The Water Carriers’ is a case in point, as I re-enter the level of a younger Pollymina and Abi, when under the tutelage of Arabella, involving <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Jumbo Juggernaut</i> and the learning processes of growing from infanthood into their slow motion future, memories of Larch Court, involving, inter alia, an arching superstructure, folded creatures, Bluey the cat again, weather systems, a tower that is rusty inside as if once a container of water, and in the girls’ future, talking to Abi as a dead ORACLE, plus an italicised poem that I found effective, a hull in the branches of a tree (is Pollymina now that owl again up there?), a broken printer, the jarring of lockdowns, a lost AI system, aBi as a ‘tomboy’, would the latter be allowed to live on to <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">old bones</i>? (I have read this section up to that reference of ‘old bones’.)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I’m quickly fatigued and must sleep again soon but I warn you not to take too much trouble upon your chest. The world does not turn on regret — there is still much for you to do. Working through magic and entropy, something far older and wiser is at work here beyond our control.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/solage-by-n-a-7/?replytocom=28110#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; 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People even dreamed about being left a piece of her, a parting gift tucked away in their doggy-bag at the end of the night, also to simply coincide along her timelines, perhaps to stay with her and discover the strange yet unknown qualities the universe had revealed over millennia.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The ‘do’ at Larch Court, whenever when, is one singular tour de force of writing and reading indeed. Giving a strong inadvertent taste of a certain mighty chapter in Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘A World of Love’, somehow tinged with elements of Robert Aickman and Walter de la Mare, in counterpoint to this book’s pervasive Vance and its gestalt version of semi-steampunk SF, dying earth and computer mechanics, laced with Muse and Music as visionary forces. The ‘do’, described initially as a dinner party, involves the wooing machinations of Öppenhoff, Pollymina and dead-or-alive spirit of Abi, and it makes me wonder if the love of the latter two is more Sororal than Sapphic. All leading, beyond an asterisk star, to some crucial considerations on Darwin based on the two girls’ sororal bantering. It has been a ‘do’ or party that involves many references including, for example, an ‘artificial sun’, ‘gentle mountain llamas’ in and among fir trees and shaggy treetops, a whole latticed panoply of the garden and a ‘boredom saver’, ‘a spell of general amnesia’, the more lurid things in the cellar flowing from the ‘lunar epidemic’, hugging beyond any lockdown rules, LYONESSE, clairvoyant communication, “one rampant ceiling boss hankering to be based on a bygone baroque design”, the girls and the ‘running bulls of Pamplona’, infusions of tea like Proust as well as Bowen and de la Mare, “<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dramatis personae</i> currently on stage” alongside more info on Ms Violet as a village nuisance….</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Pollymina’s face was more gift-wrapped than a mask,… […] She went on as if her words were set to music.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><cite class="fn" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/solage-by-n-a-7/#comment-28120" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-06T08:33:00+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 6, 2024 at 8:33 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28120" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></p><div class="comment-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; clear: left; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have now finished the few sections headed overall as ‘The Water Carriers’, and there is much about them that stimulates forthrightly as well as sometimes being evocatively fickle or fey. The book’s general style is disarmingly gauche and eloquently polished at the same time, a means of oblique communication that combines the idiosyncratic, some slang, the deadpan of inadvertence, the idioms of poshness as well as of commonality, the tongues of humans and fairies and computers alike. Also there are italic portals as a refreshing phenomenon plus certain passages that go into overdrive of expression, often taking the reader’s breath away. Some sentences that constructively frustrate the reader, too. The world of its language is utterly unique and eventually assimilable by the sensitive reader, if perhaps off-putting, at first. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This particular section ends with the potential of a great flooding by water pressure reminiscent of the finale of John Cowper Powys’ Glastonbury Romance, perhaps AS Byatt, too, some of so many elements which I find in this book of Solage, alongside all the other authors I have mentioned above, as well as Solage’e own intrinsic uniqueness. Today, inter alia, an elongated ostrich. The zigzag path, as mentioned explicitly in the text . A mausoleum and erstwhile mansion. Tenuto and Ostinato. Earlier in this overall section, as the great forest hunt transpires and the eggs proliferate and change shape as do some of the humans, and the two girls combat two villains (Bartholomew and Piquadador) within the conspiracies developed by this book about Elégiac, Eggs, Etc. And I wonder if Pollymina and Abi are simply friends of platonic and/or sapphic tendencies, or are they sisters, or, as I now begin to suspect, symbiotic ghosts as spirits or muses or alter egos. One dead the other alive, or vice versa. Separate, and as one? A constant balance between two souls outdoing and bolstering each other, like two stars in DH Lawrence. I can’t possibly itemise everything that has been happening in this section, and that is enough to be going on with, until I re-read this book, after due time has elapsed upon the finishing of reading it once! I am relatively close to the end now with the first reading.</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28122" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28122" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/solage-by-n-a-7/#comment-28122" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-07T08:31:56+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 7, 2024 at 8:31 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28122" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">ÖPPENHOFF</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The weather drove the ship along so that it skipped through the waves in a fashion unlike a normal gravity hugging craft, lurching as it quickly travelled a course for calm or solace.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This swashbuckling and high-romance section featuring Öppenhoff, Bartholomew, Abi, and eventually Pollymina in her wingèd form, reminds me creatively and perhaps inadvertently of the quick-changing music and lyric style of the ‘Jive Bunny & The Master Mixers’ pop hit in the 1980s as well as of the sea-borne chapters of Barth’s (not Bartholomew’s!) ‘The Sot-Weed Factor’, this being one of my favourite ever novels of yore. Drippy, drop, splish, splosh. Both those tentative comparisons could arguably apply to the whole book, along with all the other comparisons I have already made. It is, though, as I say, a new Solage as itself throughout. Pump up the volume. It is full of burning down into a drowned shipwreck or going upward as a sea ship into an airship, a resurrection of such ‘naufrigio’ amidst rivalries in the Elégiac drug trade out of Jaye Quay, radio masts on the ‘Rose Fulcrum’, and the ‘Aurora Borealis’, etc. etc. Öppenhoff and Bartholomew each on competing ships, the former man in emotional rapprochement with Abi, and Mr φ is now a ship’s captain! Read it for yourself and get tangled in its tantalising or infuriating nets, and perhaps you will never regather enough breath to read any book again! No exaggeration. Beyond any sought-for ‘calm or solace’!<br />A few taster sample passages:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Given the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">information-loop</em> under his jurisdiction, the captain would not be quoted on anything he had personally witnessed to anyone below rank, including his take on the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rose Fulcrum</em> disaster.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Once Öppenhoff had lost his lively chaperone, he left the country to serve in the court of the recyclable captain riding onto furious white horses, a junkie of the sea like himself not to mention φ’s simple idea of selling Elégiac to those disposed to crave it.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“By shooting up a gaze at the ancient sun, in tandem with the earth his body spun and shifted around the orb in an ellipse shape withholding consent to breach its contract from the gravitational pull we all must obey with no questions asked. Again, Öppenhoff stalked about deck as if in sympathy with the giant pancake of an elderly star.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“From that of a girl delinquent to a fully-fledged woman, she stretched with limbs totally mutated into wings capable of flight. She took their hands respectively and yelled at them at intervals, much like in the style of an <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">augmented fourth</em>, a chord that sounded something akin to a <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">honky-tonk piano</em>.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have so far read up to:<br />“…he entirely forgot all about <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">her</em> and his dear Abi. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Were they both separate parts of a whole</em>? he thought.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 7, 2024 at 11:13 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28123" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">ABI</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“As soon as the singing taps of water filled the land with a transparency, he recovered his bearings with expeditionary force intent looking past the fog dunes surrounding neighbouring flood saturated lands and somewhat submerged in mud. He decided to budge and take care of a hard journey into the wilderness, leave this land of woe behind.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This beginning of the end is very satisfying to me, not necessarily tying up all the loose ends of the achronological plot neatly, but giving a sense of fulfilment and greater understanding of the whole book and its characters in hindsight. And to achieve this, it uses some more passages of writing that take the reader’s breath away, passages that I have left unquoted here, and some other passages with the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">al dente</em> traction of frustration equally left unquoted, too. The ones I have quoted above and below are the ones that have special meaning to me. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Dealing with the plague symptoms, the blast off from the planet, the Valkyrie in interface with the Trouser People, the giant sun strangling the earth, self-referential “fictional circumstance” and the pages one is a turning by reading this explicitly intertextualised ‘tale’.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">‘Dry docked’ by <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Cane</em> or bamboo stick, and an ‘abandoned water tower’. And the ‘coven of stevedores’ that I forgot to mention in the previous chapters of water carrying, flood and sea. All off kilter and true.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…accessorised to pick up a phantom’s interpolation.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Although he always carried Abi’s memory like perfume into the long dunes of his later life, Pollymina had pushed him way back to where he was — in no-mans-land where there was no avoiding the need for acceptance as a qualification for solace.“</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…the pitch-and-put alley. For it was there that the real golf balls were up for sale.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…dialect — <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">speech patterns varying across borders and countries</em> produced here on tap…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…an ugly metallic cone on the bay in which he had melted into.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have read so far up to:<br />“You are good to go! Be free!”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/02/03/solage-by-n-a-7/?replytocom=28123#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 7, 2024 at 3:14 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28124" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“In our story any such meeting between two characters is never a triviality.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This second half of ‘ABI’ is even more than I would have expected for a fine ‘FINISH’ as is now wrought by this book. A book that takes the taste of Walter de la Mare’s ABO from the reader’s mouth. I can only repeat what I stated in the previous entry above. And the text has even expressed thus the reading of it through its own words:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Each body of the dance was orientated into a frozen stance running to the four corners of the room and to affect a unison in the form of a knot twisted with limbs to occur at the point the protagonists came back together at the room’s central axis.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And through the ballroom dance of ‘pas de deux’ and ‘pas de trois’ featuring all and sundry, Larch Court manse now clock-beetled or as a vessel in contiguity with an Ark of animals, as well as quantum physics and Darwin’s natural selection again….and much more of its themes and plot of characters. The Null Immortalis of Abi and Pollymina. The come-uppance of others. “…sprayed him with a noxious substance, unknown in origin,…” The Sandman of Olympia now etched with ‘found art’. The prose style is not so much a gauche or vexed text but is fundamentally elegant while being as fractured as Elizabeth Bowen’s style has long been said by others to be ‘fractured’, but here SOLAGE is fractured in a different way, and has healed itself. Jack Vance’s Dying Earth reborn in disguise. And much more, musical or otherwise. <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Italic portals</em>, computer lore, Jaye’s sea and all.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A satisfying ending but leaving much to follow in its wake. No spoilers here. Except I shall give some more passages below that seem important to me from this final section, even if they turn out not to be your own favourite passages when you eventually read this book…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“— toy dolls were returned intact to the doll’s house at last.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…the empty husks of the white oval eggs widely dispersed across the desert.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Outside the ruins, she found a broken telephone receiver that after eons, could not carry the sound waves it was invested to emit. Moribund in structural usefulness to mimic other voices, she anticipated the part of her dead companion and specifically addressed Abi using mouthed words through the broken handset.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The dip pen held a little friction as they scratched the thirsty paper holding sway eagerly as if the mark it made also did the thinking. The pen glided across as the ink spurted out from the nib fountain spreading out to make a series of blotches in the form of code.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…imagine about a life filled with <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fairy harebells dancing in the silvery dew</em>,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The narrator ventures to add that a ventriloquist’s mouth tends to lay open like a man trap snapping open every so often if only to catch an unwary listener caught napping.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">For listener, please read reader! </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">In honour of the book’s final flourish of a ‘sacred loop’, I intend to read the book again in due course, with my short sub-comments in upper case letters appended to each original comment entry above, from the beginning of this review back to its end here. Creating a palimpsest not unlike the book’s own palimpsest. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">From earlier in the book’s pages…<br />“It was enough space for a continuous track, more than adequate for a train with <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">full steam ahead</em> capacity and was compared with the legendary <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Forth Bridge</em> — a similar monument-built eons ago crossing over into a foreign land.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">FINISH</p></div></article></div></li></ol></div></div></article></div></li></ol></div>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-39531075569861462712024-02-02T16:24:00.000+00:002024-02-02T16:24:24.429+00:00<p> <img alt="IMG_1259" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46629" data-attachment-id="46629" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1705492382","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="IMG_1259" data-large-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg?w=624" data-medium-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg?w=204" data-orig-file="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg" data-orig-size="968,1422" data-permalink="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/img_1259/#main" height="1422" sizes="(max-width: 968px) 100vw, 968px" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg" srcset="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg 968w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg?w=102&h=150 102w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg?w=204&h=300 204w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_1259.jpeg?w=768&h=1128 768w" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">GRIMSCRIBE PRESS 2024</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Jon Padgett, Editor-in-Chief — Paula D. Ashe, Associate Editor — Daniel Braum, Associate Editor — Alex Jennings, Associate Editor</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this literary journal: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/vastarien/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/vastarien/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><br />CONTRIBUTORS: Romana Lockwood, Richard Gavin, M.E. Bronstein, Marisca Pichette, Laura Cranehill, Adam Lawrence, Emma E. Murray, SJ Townend, Alyza Taguilaso, Chris Kuriata, Rebecca J. Allred, Michael Bailey, Carson Winter, César Dávila Andrade, Ben Larned, Paul L. Bates, Dyani Sabin, Perry Ruhland, Shawn Phelps, Jonathan Louis Duckworth, Andrew Wilbur, A Mystery Author</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Although I have retired from most reviewing after 15 years of doing it, I am keeping up with my regular independent relationships, such as with whole Vastariens, and with new single stories in anthologies and collections by writers whom I have reviewed before. Please keep me informed of the latter.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Who knows, I may one day come out of such retirement and start obsessively gestalt reviewing whole books again!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When I read this issue of Vastarien, my thoughts will appear in the comment stream below…</strong></p><div class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled" id="jp-post-flair" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-17T15:24:11+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 17, 2024 at 3:24 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28048" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Issue Zero with above blank black cover…<br />Before starting to read above journal, it has reminded me of Nemonymous issue 4 that had completely white cover and issue 6 that existed only through its non-existence and issue 2 in 2002 that contained the world’s first blank story.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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Something seeps through.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28058#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28057" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-20T11:27:29+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 20, 2024 at 11:27 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28057" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Tenebrous Ramblings<br />by Romana Lockwood</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Trial and error”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">As I always do, especially when imagining myself to be the character in a story, here halfway into a police drama on tv someone else is watching. The bathwater is getting cold around me..</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28057#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28059" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-20T12:52:02+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 20, 2024 at 12:52 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28059" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Molly on the Stairhead<br />by Richard Gavin</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She yelped when some of the severed fence wires bit into her calf. ”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have been spooked by dreams of such wires before thanks to the Gavinostic. Here, a classic from this author, I judge, with many staggering passages of beauty and darkness and deep key frissons releasing the prisons of the body as well as opening those in the mind, a tale with a haunting refrain of an ancient seeming playground game based on the story’s title whereby we actually witness the inception of the retroactive game now played, amidst the ‘imaginary queendoms’ of girlhood and throwaway boys as spear carriers. A vision of a marble staircase (“a relic of a mansion that had been on the Greens before the land was bought, but there was no foundation, no nothing. Just the staircase,…”) and two girls in particular growing up into menstruation, a vanishing ‘dying fall’ of one of them from the stairhead in the Greens later haunting the other girl as she babysits mere boys. A tutelary meditation “that Death’s house has many mansions.” A staircase leading only to a landingless land. Or just a distorted spook house?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this author’s work: </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><a href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/omens-by-richard-gavin-my-third-real-time-review-9-dec-2008/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Omens by Richard Gavin </em></a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><a href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/primeval-wood-by-richard-gavin/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Primeval Wood – by Richard Gavin</em></a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/sylvan-dread-richard-gavin/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sylvan Dread – Richard Gavin</em></a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plus a number of stories in anthologies linked from <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/richard-gavin/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/#comment-28062" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-21T13:55:58+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 21, 2024 at 1:55 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28062" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><img alt="IMG_8305" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46659" height="250" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_8305.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="400" /></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Ekphrasis<br />By M.E. Bronstein</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘Ah.’<br />A pause.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Too rarefied otherwise to quote from this essential ‘ghost story’ that is actually a beautiful exposition of the art form it describes — a Proustian memory of an internally mutual ekphrasis of words and image perfected and tainted, in turn, I guess, by Bluetooth earplug, and an extracted interview and an art critical article, an ekphrasis created by a gold glass pen, as a man remembers the woman who owned the pen and his becoming (as more taint than paint) almost collaborator after her surmised death by drowning.<br />(Extrapolated with the previous story above, the latter’s marble staircase was a more un-deliberate version of just such an ekphrasis leading to its creator as revenant?)</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I rarely review poetry. These ekphrastic examples (with elements of ekphrasis as merged by the previous story above) of seemingly free verse seem sinewy enough to enjoy their own enjambment. “and and and”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this author: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/marisca-pichette/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/marisca-pichette/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“But the real reason you need to mend a fence right away isn’t because of what can get out, it’s about what can get in.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I, too, can’t wait for summer as I look outside at today’s weather. I remember I once had an escaped peafowl that sat on the fence and loitered outside this house as if stalking me. Although I did not have wind chimes, I did once have a dreamcatcher that rattled in the wind. And I tantamount killed my own mom, and others I loved or who might have loved me, but I now put it down to a guilt and anxiety complexes. Or to a therapeutic imaginarium or ‘saúde’, such as this shocking story also provides, its first shock literally coming out of nowhere, much more abrupt even than that earlier marble staircase above. I wonder if I turn on myself, I would become a rabbit or a songbird, too. Which is worst, God or the Devil? Red mittens, notwithstanding.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28066#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28070" style="border: 0px; 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Murray</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“the yellow sunflower that decorated Mamaw’s old wind chime,”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A ‘pain painting’ and a potential miracle for a mother whose baby St John has died, and the site of a nearby plane crash in the surrounding woods (a mutation of the marble staircase in the earler wood above) leads her to an imputed angel crucified like Christ, but the body missing from the waist down, except for trailing intestines,… I could continue detailing this richly inspirational prose work that eventually transcended for me any possible review of it other than the sheer reading of it. Excited to report its existence here, complete with the type of art installation she makes of a different angel.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“incorporeal bells rang in incessant, painful reverberations, ”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28072#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“So much is hidden in literature and so much is hidden in music, between the shapes the words and notes make.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">As if inspired by this book’s earlier wind chimes, and its mutual ekphrasis, here reality is created by music and words, not fine art painting and words, a new mirror, a new moon as a hole in the sky by the sea shore, or a reflection of something else, as the Theremin resonates with the chimes (“His attention returns to his hands, his heart thrumming, as if it may burst”) as performed by this musician who offers to conjure up dead people for an audience from the heavenly chimes of his waving hands over glassy music, or so I imagine, indeed trying to summon his own dead mother, as we learn of his tragic backstory, and his mother’s return, or is it his mother at all? Or someone even more attractive to his yearnings? Leading to essences relegated to a vision of death itself in a seal pup; only the writer knows where their writing leads us with its ‘muddling’ spells pulled from ether to printed paper and back again to our eyes by the same printless ether, or I am muddling, I wonder. Prints doubling, like footprints on the dark side of the moon?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…or believes it may be the whisky doing the muddling, as does the writer, portraying the events which are about to occur.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28074#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Auntie Shanta and the Slaughtering Process<br />By Chris Kuriata</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It isn’t enough that we must die, we must also become edible.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; 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The story of a girl and her animal-cannibalistically ruthless Auntie. And the girl’s memories of her Grandpa in the wilds of nature and its X rated slaughter of what is to be eaten, however easy or hard is the death. I feel, in the context of this journal, that birth and death are two Uncanny Balls, but here their oscillations are not chimes, not even bells, but pierogies and meat maggots. “…meat for his own dinner. I thought that was bullshit…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28078#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: outside; 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Allred</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Like the Teaman, the carousel children sport features more closely resembling fear than frolic.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This starts as an enchanting tale of teapots and ice cubes instead of sugar ones, a tale about the protagonist’s journey to visit their father, most certainly a tale to become an iconic one such as, say, Lewis Carroll once wrote, but with darker elements of God and the Father along with fresh nursery rhyme incantations . I will not spoil it with more details, other than with details that resonate with the foregoing context of this book… The darker elements starting with ….<br />“A trio of bells announces your arrival.”<br />And the ‘marble staircase’ syndrome and its rite of passage becoming…”a narrow staircase, chasing away ribbons of light that emanate from some room beyond. You descend, counting the stairs on your fingers and the rapid thump of your heart in your head. Thirty-seven and one-hundred and forty-two, respectively, by the time you reach the corridor at the bottom…”<br />Also the ‘bilateral thrum’ of the earlier theremin, and there is also a ‘hole in the sky’ like the erstwhile moon’s.<br />Up up up and away toward “…empty, cavernous space up all the way up to the elbow.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this author’s work: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/rebecca-j-allred/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/rebecca-j-allred/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“He needs to transcribe the lyrics before he forgets because sometimes words overwrite word”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A mind-twisting theme-and-variations on words of Oldfield’s ‘Tubular Bells’ (if not this book’s earlier ‘chimes’), as we follow the creative and emotional struggles against plagiarism of a composer improvising in words the jamming session that follows a clinching of special lyrics for a song and, by the way, his piano is called Amelia, not Joyce! </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I’m a lot of things. I like things and don’t like things and sometimes I’m shy and sometimes I’m not. I can look people in the eyes when I talk to them.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is a disarmingly plainspoken story, compelling, too. Of a woman or girl absconding from her family home where she feels lack of self worth and uncomfortable, leaves it for a random new town via a random train journey, and a church community of young ones who take her under their communal wing after her easily getting a job at the town bakery, too easily, in fact, as she also too easily leaves the new town for another new town, for a different iteration of initiation. I, as reader, was somehow becalmed in a mix of sweetness and joy and inferred hindsight darkness. Still am by even more pervasive iterations of hindsight.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this author: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/carson-winter/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/carson-winter/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28095#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-31T11:21:18+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 31, 2024 at 11:21 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28097" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Two poems</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The People Upstairs<br />By Ben Larned</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She’d never thought of herself as malicious – it was the callousness of <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">others</i>that inspired her fantasies – but maybe that was the justification they all gave, that <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">it’s not them, it’s </i>me <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who was wronged</i>.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is an apotheosis of Ligotti and more. Needs to be read and assessed. The story’s words by preternatural inadvertence stealing the DISARMING character from the immediate story above, here calling herself Jean, and these words ARMING her through her inner self’s EYE or I, and giving her her own WHO as HUE — therefore now armed and enabled by the loathsome seeming man whom she chauffeured as professional car driver into some Ligotti Corporate Horror landscapes, this man thus seeming to empower her to deal with the fuckers upstairs. I was subsumed by all the words. And I have been left with a hollow brain.</p></ol></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28098#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28101" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28101" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-40 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="40" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=40&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=40&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=60&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=80&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=120&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=160&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/#comment-28101" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-01T10:03:54+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 1, 2024 at 10:03 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28101" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The City Archives<br />Paul L. Bates</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Mindful of the thin ice frosting, Mitchel climbed the worn steel tipped steps that narrowed as they rose to the colossal brick archway. ”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">From this book’s stairway syndrome, this is a mighty story, methodically stylish, Ligottianly brilliant at evoking a man working at the City Archives and his rolls of pungent paper, his Kafkaesque bosses, the vermin that pester him, his dreams (one in particular), above all his prospects out of this downtrodden existence, his view of umbrellas, and of a commuting train journey to die for, and where dream meets reality in a disarming fulfilment of his prospects which is either absurdly pointless or incredibly hopeful. I am glad this story managed to reach my eyes through its own ground zero and under the auspices of this book’s zero edition. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of this author: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/paul-l-bates/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/paul-l-bates/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28101#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/#comment-28104" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-02T11:01:15+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 2, 2024 at 11:01 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28104" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">These Graceless, Grasping Hands<br />Dyani Sabin<br />This fine poem acts as arch to the next story…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The Flytrap Garden<br />Perry Ruhland</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“In the center of the garden rose an elevated platform, a tarnished moon with a waist-high rail.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This strong Ligottian-plus Corporate Horror writing affected me deeply, from the foreman’s atrium in a derelict factory and all its art installations of insect life in jars plus a stench and more — and then, with each word a flytrap, as the garden itself is composed entirely of flytraps, I meet through these ever-evocative words, the old man that is me…<br />As Vastarien and my exterior reviewing relationship to it from the beginning nearly reaches its end….</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It was an elderly man, stout and vaguely toadstool shaped, with a tumorous head wholly free of hair. He was kneeling before the lectern…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous review of this author: <a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/882-2/#comment-852" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/882-2/#comment-852</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28104#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/#comment-28105" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-02T14:02:19+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 2, 2024 at 2:02 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28105" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE PLACE, THE PEOPLE, THE PREDATORS: THE LIGOTTIAN WORLD OF VANCOUVER’S DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE<br />Shawn Phelps</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A non fiction article complete with bibliography and footnotes.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My previous review of Shawn Phelps: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/vastarien-vol-5-no-2/#comment-26165" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/25/vastarien-vol-5-no-2/#comment-26165</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A Wild Green Tide is Soon Coming — Notes on a Planned Story<br /> Jonathan Louis Duckworth</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“elbows”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is a self-referential writerly work where, as part of speculations arising from, say, a writer’s group, the planning of a story and/ or a later film of the story has become the story itself. A story of two men and a woman who have known each other since childhood meeting up in the wilds near an old house, with sex and violence, and invasive monster vines. As if meeting up in the wilds of non-story to reenact what has already been written about them, with a surprise ending that make this experiment actually work as a great story. Words as vines, and vines as words, it also makes one think of the pointlessness of writing stories at all, because most stories have already existed in their planning and subsequently died unread. A bit like most people’s lives. So why give birth to a story at all? But I may have already answered that question in what I have written above.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/?replytocom=28105#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28106" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/vastarien-volume-seven-issue-zero/#comment-28106" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-02-02T16:12:43+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">February 2, 2024 at 4:12 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28106" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Learning Process<br />Andrew Wilbur</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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And people will want to harm you as readily as to love you, to teach you something they think worthwhile as well as to cruelly correct you, and there is always one You of whom the big question must be asked. And I am now too old to climb the Tower, so mark that well. 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My continued review will appear in the comment stream below, as and when I read this book…</p><div class="sharedaddy sd-like-enabled sd-sharing-enabled" id="jp-post-flair" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0.5em 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing" style="border: 0px; 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I posted picture of a crab above yesterday, before reading about the ‘crab’ today!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/?replytocom=28077#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This book, too, (ending the overall section headed WAR) stretches its manifold parts, machine into machine, mainframe computer into mainframe computer on their hindlegs, as well as mankind into machine, machine into mankind, alongside turbine engines, Lego mechanics, even Electral love, plus Trouser People V-2, and someone acting as her own midwife in the birth-death syndrome of The Uncanny, including a cargo of eggs, a spluttertongue, the means of cryology — a human diaspora to die for, as outer space beckons and its Goldilocks Zones.<br />All above, and more, takes SF at least a notch further than I have ever experienced before, and that claim of mine is coming from someone who has studied and described in detail all the fiction in INTERZONE from 2013 to 2023, and plenty of other SF!<br />And also there is “An extract from Olympia’s encyclopedia of tales entitled, ‘The Owl’ η κουκουβάγι”!</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Esoteric words added value to a time loop no ordinary language could supersede.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘But I do know who you are — <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Able Midshipman Öppenhoff.’ </i>There was a threatening purr in its voice he could well remember that indicated amusement guided by an insane pleasure caused by its audience’s confusion.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is an extraordinary and substantive section, involving Ōppenhoff and other characters in a wasteland where farming is attempted, picking up themes and conflicts between them somewhere to a ‘barren planet’ where they have fled or still back home on earth in Rook Farms orchards? — a theatrical scenario where you are beyond the fourth wall, sometimes glimpsed by one of the characters. Sometimes holograms sometime just an illusion or even sometimes real, the eponymous talisman as amulet or jewel or bauble sometimes holding a genie that is one of the characters or a doppelgänger. A ritenuto of bolt guns, references to Clock-Beetle, a ‘bothersome imp’ pestering Ōppenhoff, a ‘turf witch’, fleas, a flame and its candlewax, chattels dragged along a trail, an alpha, beta and omega on their RUST TUNDRA. More a ‘character-building exercise’ that I once used to know as strange team-building ones! A reader-building exercise, too?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…a long tongue that looked more like rope compared with muscle sinew.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/?replytocom=28091#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/#comment-28094" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-30T09:45:22+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 30, 2024 at 9:45 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28094" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">’THEM’</i> EGGS</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Was this a conspiracy to contradict his security around a tight corner on which to progress: Her majesty and a man who claimed to know her like the palm of his hand growing out from his forearm stump?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Another head-lined substantive part of the book where the plot turns yet another elbow, a part that is possibly the most obliquely challenging part of them all to read so far, but also potentially the most fruitful part given the reader’s sensitivity to see the woods for the trees and the words for the trip-ups.<br />Starting with Abi (throwing eggs at the wall?) and who is now beginning to show her power as a character previously in the side-lines, in interface with Öppenhoffl, plus references to the ‘Forth Bridge’ on our ‘elderly planet’ in real-time, some inscrutable holes or depressions, Pollymina of erstwhile Larch Court now ‘enduring a system of melancholy’, plus much about Constanza and her ‘batch of boys’ and ‘terrible hive’, her wings spread wide, fairies and fayres, canyons and Trouser People, bipeds, cybernetics, kinetics, ‘metal-soaked people’, an oval egg in a soil jar, and a woman somehow with a serial number and bar code, not forgetting a young man as a cheeky stripling, where the book takes a Shakespearean turn, I feel.<br />But much of this part reads as if I am watching an opera by Wagner or Rutland Boughton, and indeed ‘Russalka’ by Dvorak. A ‘fairy law’ until kingdom come.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…stumped up between them both in words… [……] …a perfect biped structure was born hybrid with a human of digital interconnectivity…”</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28096" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 3px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 20px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><article class="comment" id="comment-28096" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><footer style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author comment-meta vcard" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9em; font-style: inherit; line-height: 2.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/#comment-28096" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-31T10:27:48+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 31, 2024 at 10:27 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28096" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">VIOLET</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Wearing fashionable garments for her time, she intrepidly wore a flush space-grey robe flooded with a cobalt shade complementing her hairdo revealed to be a big fat feather on her head torn away from the fringe.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A section mainly about Violet and Olympia looking after each other amid ‘little dots’ and ‘fairy bulbs’, also referring back to Jaye, the B&B, their strange but perhaps not so strange habits, the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sun-Estuary</i>, plot elements evolving even when the reader fails to yet notice them. The book being a bespoke template for each mind reading it as a chair specially built for a particular body.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“This code was activated by the touch of the skin alone, such as the cupola device containing a valuable Greek garden chair sprouting complicated swirls moving up and down the inner lining so massaging the sitter’s unique backside.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“; rust and mildew had infested the cold slate dribbling down the wooden platter rotten with damp.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Particularly enjoyed the reference to the CANE having being relegated to the moon (like the Rwanda scheme today!?) and a weir with ‘flouncy trees’ preceding a namecheck for Shakespeare, a rune and its glyphs, Violet as sorceress and alchemist of Elégiac, a gate with <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">curly-wurly </i>figurations, a little girl with the giant cat Bluey, a ‘great big sneeze-like giggle’, the Mausoleum, the palace for the dead, and more on Piqudador and Petrioc amid unwrapped fixtures on the skin and orphaned blotches amid Violet’s fury.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have so far read in this long section up to the first “Ah Haaa” mewed by Violet.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/?replytocom=28096#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This second half of the latest section is a prime example of this book’s powerful disarming of the reader by what I have called in the past ‘a vexed texture of text’ to which the process of the reader’s acclimatising is part and parcel of that very power. A mixture of, say, SF or steampunk art, Henri Rousseau, Lowry, Chagall and Mondrian as in visuals. ‘The means to grasp the full narration’…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The reality through the screen can be so deceptive; cease walking through <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">plexiglass</i>and look at stuff with your own eyes.” (Ah-Haaa, I say.)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A scenario mainly with two women and a girl with pigtails: Violet, Olympia and Pollymina, as we gather, out of potentially constructive confusion, who is exactly talking to whom and who they actually are or by what they are named. Mixed with a canopy of birds, shape-shuffling, ‘regression’, mechanical figure skaters, toxic waste, ‘plods’ as law-enforcers, a dreaming cottage, and the girl eventually becomes trapped by ‘furry down’ AS a bird (an owl). An enchantment.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“A doughnut shaped disc that Violet placed on her left wrist…” and its ’spectrum light’, and much else. Or a ring as in Wagner or Tolkien. The algorithms of Papagena (or the umpa lumpas?)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“For centuries children were by tradition classed as a hopeful intervention to any <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bonding-loop</i>.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Now Pollymina had the means to grasp the full narration citing the ring as a supreme example of her true destiny censoring all rival claims.”</p><ol class="commentlist" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She left the precious dawn to progress on to sunrise gradually covering more ground until its shock of light cascaded over the blinded windows fully open and marking the time with happy memories.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">However, not all memories, in Pollymina’s case, are happy, i.e. when being an Elégiac lozenge captive as a teenager of Arabella etc., as we the readers, meantime, wallow in ancient magnetised tape, walk on two legs, think about the mind as a Palace, alongside an oval globe, a pet drone, and an empty wooden box held in ‘shaky mittens’.<br />Now with an older version of Pollymina, in this linear non-linearity, we see a mauve sky, a sun waking from its forty-winks, Twinkle the hydro-car, a wardrobe, three yew trees hugging us (if not a yieldingtree), water carriers vis à vis Petrioc and Abi and “the wrath soon to come”, ‘flesh and blood carriers’, too, and “the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sword of Damocles</i>”, plus a ‘personal snow globe’ allowing us to enjoy all that is sprinkled at us! Not to mention the old mansion with a ‘gap in the roof’!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have read so far in this part up to around where a “tide of galaxies” is mentioned.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/?replytocom=28102#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This and the old Test Card and old dials lit up for the Medium Wave serve as just a few memories among many in the second half of the section headed ‘Pollymina and Abi’. It starts with a sort of notebook monologue memory of the Clamforth festival during ‘Achtro’ by Abi , a lengthy italic portal (“skein by skein”), as it were, or a version of Joyce’s Molly, and this ‘monologue’ when factored-in to further narration presents a tantalising portrait of arguably the two girls’ potential Sapphic or mutual Muse love in the context of this book’s plot-lines, both linear and non-linear, as blended with considerations of Music itself, including a Dvorak symphony whereby Russalka is brought to mind again, and their playing of a pianola, etc, and all this blended, too, with an explicit reference to ‘the dying earth’ as an important factor for this book, I feel, bringing to mind Jack Vance, an SF writer who was also a proponent of great music, including opera, as well as space opera! Scenes involving a locket, ginger scents, timelines, a yoyo and ‘empathy loop’, composted video screens, ‘climate change’ as an italic portal, ‘technological bells and whistles’ and Pollymina’s erstwhile or future car crash. There is more remarkable rhapsodic writing here for the reader to distil, too much for me to fully itemise — involving a significantly unique theme-and-variations on the aforementioned potentiality of a form of Sapphic or unique Muse love. Star balanced against star, a planet from which to flee balanced with these stars while its lifeforms (on two legs or mainframe) are in balance with words and such words’ music of meaning. All the book’s themes <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">up for grabs</i>, not locketed in stone.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Saddled up on <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twinkle</i>, Pollymina surmised all by herself, she was getting nowhere riding in an ellipse, much like the one the planet did side by side with the star named <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sol</i>.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/26/solage-by-ashley-n/?replytocom=28108#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Royle: “To read Cixous: cut off into another thinking of space and time and history. Her writing is a new kind of science fiction or poetic science criticism.. It has to do with nanoments, narratoids, omniscience and ornithophony, with ‘literature’ as a land as much of the ancient past as of the unforeseeable future.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">[See my gestalt review of SOLAGE: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/solage-nimbus-ashley/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/solage-nimbus-ashley/</a> ]</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; 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text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-27T12:36:56+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 27, 2024 at 12:36 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28082" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My review in 2015 of Edgar Allan Poe’s LIGEIA:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">****</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LIGEIA</b><br /><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will. — <small style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">JOSEPH GLANVILL</small>.”</i><br />A sumptuous, rhapsodically textured text, deceptively ‘slender’ or agile like Ligeia herself perhaps when in full health, but decadently and morbidly tapestried throughout otherwise. Like Ligeia, there is a ‘strangeness’ in this text but one that is hidden in Plain Sight, like Poe’s purloined letter earlier. But, here, it is the Sight itself, her eyes, the most thrilling eyes in all literature, I claim — followed in time’s due accretion by a <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Saracenic”</i> tapestried undulance, a literally textured vision of her soul wrestling with shadow… In the end, the Eyes Have It, the Eyes Have It. Eyes with the glance of pervasive foreign, oriental cultures…<br />A subsuming of one’s second false love with a revivification by one’s first true love. The hope of transcending Death through the narrator’s (or is it Ligeia’s?) wilful amorality? Like today’s battling Saracenic wills in Iraq and Syria? That Conqueror Worm? Poe at his undidactic best. Or with a didacticism hidden in Plain Sight?<br />cf ‘The Giaour’ by Lord Byron, about Leila… This review of mine seems to be the very first connection between ‘The Giaour’ and ‘Ligeia’. Poe was a fan of Byron. And there are similar Islamic connections in ‘The Giaour’ (and, by the way, a vampire)…</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/helene-cixous-dreamer-realist-analyst-writing-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=28082#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/helene-cixous-dreamer-realist-analyst-writing-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-28083" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-27T12:41:11+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 27, 2024 at 12:41 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28083" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Royle calls some of ‘Ligeia’ <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">revelirious</i> writing and also states:<br />“Cixous encourages us to ‘write by dream’. This injunction or solicitation would concern the composition not only of poems or plays or works of fiction but also of critical essays.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Ah.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/helene-cixous-dreamer-realist-analyst-writing-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=28083#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/helene-cixous-dreamer-realist-analyst-writing-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-28084" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-27T12:46:23+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 27, 2024 at 12:46 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28084" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My review of THE WAVES by Virginia Woolf:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Red Hat People lived in Red Hat Land and rarely wandered beyond its margins. I was one such Red Hat Person who had wondered why wearing red hats was such a ‘thing’, and so the only way to find out was by means of foolhardiness, viz. to see what hats other people wore elsewhere. Not that it was easy to leave — dragging myself through hedges backward and across stiles meant for a different bodily scale and configuration from mine. And none of it was made any easier through my needing to maintain standards while continuing to sport the standard red hat on my head. However, in thankful counterpoint, the hat bore a brim that gave me sporadic shade from the scorching sun during the hottest part of the day. In fact I felt as if it must seem invisible when silhouetted against a similar colour in the red hot sky. But can a silhouette be any other colour but black? It is strange how my thoughts can twist and turn once seeded in my mind. And as soon as I emerged from one particular hedge with the hat still perched on my head, I saw the nature of the next stile that faced me. Near it or upon it, a man could be discerned in a blue hat and the biggest head imaginable within it, at least the biggest imaginable by me. He had needed to hang his hat on the hand-hold of the top rung and it was as if the stile’s structure also bore a harness somewhere to give further support to his head. I looked at the sky beyond the stile upon which he was propped and saw the firmament was gradually turning as blue as his hat, with indications the sun was setting on the other side of the stile, with later signs, even as I watched, of the blue becoming a navy sort of blue, evidently soon to turn black. It was then, in sudden panic, that I discovered myself returning through the last hedge and it was far more difficult than when I had come in the opposite direction, and this was because the spiky bits had firmly turned against me. And the difficulty was the same when I turned round and tried to go forward instead of backward into the hedge whence I had so recently emerged. My red hat from Red Hat Land was already forgotten in the earlier panic, and I could now see it was hanging upon one of the hedge spikes as tiny as the tiniest red berry. No brim in sight.</strong></p>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-78944569443416170442024-01-18T16:44:00.004+00:002024-01-18T16:44:39.248+00:00A Voice In The Wilderness<p> A<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 18.200001px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 18.200001px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">voice in the wilderness – the writer studied this expression with which the writer was faced. If a voice was in the wilderness, did that not imply that there was nobody else about, and if so, how could such a voice be heard for anyone to address such a topic, without destroying the wilderness itself by their own presence in it. So, the writer crawled surreptitiously on all fours towards the outer edge of the wilderness, testing each grasp and grapple forward, to see if they had passed through a no-man’s-land and then across an even more human-empty tranche of ground where there could never be a voice that existed unless there was anyone potentially able to use such a voice to prove the writer wrong, and the writer strained their neck backward and searched the sky for clues as to any coordinates to determine their position, but of course, no wilderness worth its wildernessness is truly mapped out by any cartographer, because once visited, it becomes an ex-wilderness. And it was then that the writer heard the bray of some beast, a sound self-evidently that was not a human voice. You see, the word ‘voice’ implies a voice is a human voice, because other animals roar or bleat or indeed, as this one did, bray, with something other than a voice. Do such animals in the wilderness cancel out the wilderness as a wilderness in the manner that a human presence would otherwise manage to do by suddenly entering what was once a wilderness. The writer then heard a quack and an even shriller bray, as if a duck sat on the back of a hyena to laugh at the writer’s rambling thoughts — thoughts as yet unvoiced and not even finished being written down here. The writer could not help but echo the laugh having remembered that, just as they earlier wrote, they were already crawling on all fours, and even their own voice could never pretend actually to be called a voice. And, thus, the wilderness remained as pure as the purest of wildernesses under the soft black stars of a certain form of unseen sky at night — unseen, indeed, by any form of human kind or cruel. 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font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She wiped her pupils clean as if to cover the significant pools of light emitting from their circumference lest a tentative reading gave cause for her friends to rejoice in her identification as a <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trouser Person.</i>”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Take a deep breath before you start this massive section. It takes pluck to read it in one sitting, a deep pleasure, too.<br />A ‘tentative reading’, yes, but one that needs a reader’s osmosis as well as an UNtentative deliberation and ratiocination. It needs a self-séance as well as a mingling with the characters and their motives, stemming from the book’s previous leitmotifs, portals and wormholes of style and meaning. The plot machinations are complex, Machiavellian, ever-morphing, and I will not be able to itemise in this real-time review what these various characters are manipulating, whether it is to rescue Pollymina from the spider craft’s Socrat-V7, or to optimise the effects of Elégiac, or to prepare humanity for interstellar travel following all that has been going on, and to consider if the internet will outlast humanity, all geared and fine-tuned, inter alia, to the act of interpersonal ‘wooing’ patterns and musical formulations. I give below some more of what this book might call ‘bleeding chunks’ as a tiny few examples out of many, and the particular quote containing mention of Brahms seems to broad-brush the skills the reader actually needs in reading this book at all!<br />Its ‘hex codes’ and ‘magical runes’, to match Poe’s ‘magic pinions and wizard wheels’ in his ‘The Premature Burial’, to jump-start a moribund existence alongside our ability to absorb some of the many ideas and plot-lines and characters playing out in this book. Analogue and digital and numinous, just three of the other factors holding hands around the planchette. The ‘turbines’ and ‘metal golem’, notwithstanding. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“This was much ado with opening a supply chain to sell old brooms and kitchen utensils. The square shaped shop they now owned contained extra dimensions…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Thereafter, Elégiac evoked a speeding world out of its allotted sequence of events — to have one’s cake and eat it all in one chomp.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“She usually preferred runic script as the most legible for any of her missives sent out to a human crowd, angered by their constant reprimand twittering with sound bites into the delicate microphones as if to threaten her harm. Olympia was trying hard to channel Violet’s strange articulations into symbols by writing just above the ledgers and in plain text. So that Olympia revealed what Violet was truly saying, she operated an age-old analogue typewriter tinkling to a light musical accompaniment.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…a musical incantation of similar ilk to that of Brahms might forge from musical structure, repeatedly cloning the main theme in a variety of disguises from vanilla and not forgetting the concluding fugue at the end, otherwise the music might decide to go on infinitely. The written melody was comprised of the little squiggles and dots superimposed upon ruler lines counting as the source code of the sound emitted, another DNA of sorts. Though the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bookending</i> fugue was a complex musical form based on mathematical splicing of a simple musical idea — some of the notes simply relied upon the final double bar line from which it was clear where the music should stop downwind of the last musical note that was struck.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28041#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sol.</i>”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Three relatively short sections of visionary power via the book’s own disarming style of rhythmically guileless complexity. The ‘sage planet’ and its far future or far lateral state of existence seen alongside the ‘he’ of Socrat-V7 and the ‘she’ of Cob-Irena — as filtered through a gradual accretion of plot and human characters in a combined linear and non-linear direction of accretion.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“After disappointing millennia, human contact relied upon the innumerable keyboards simultaneously co-operating with silicon cities welded grid by grid and frame by frame, buttoned to what look like fields of pastures green.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28047#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28051" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-18T11:05:32+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 18, 2024 at 11:05 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28051" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“So being eaten alive by a land worm outside Jaye was the last thing people wished upon themselves.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The long and the short of it is that, rhythmically or oscillatingly in and out of its own self-haunting sentences, one day it seems ‘easier’ to read than on other days when the book seems tantalisingly ‘al dente’ to read as it was in today’s two sections, one section short and the other long.<br />I loved the derelict house with the peculiar church spire and the shuddersome character of Arabella! And much else. Not so sure about a few other aspects in these two sections, but no doubt they will become clearer later, in hindsight. All being edgy signs of a book of worthy traction.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“: historically democracy was being consumed by a variety of dictators turning up as clowns in full makeup and paraphernalia — more about that type of charade later.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28051#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28053" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-19T09:53:52+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 19, 2024 at 9:53 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28053" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Pity Olympia didn’t have the senses of a termite creeping undetected towards the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sky boat</i>. However, he was distracted while viewing Olympia who he thought was strikingly alluring to look at, her skin covered with almost a glossy sheen and her body innocently loaded with wires and switches moulded carefully satisfying the usual body contours a human might take. From head to toe, the synthetic skin covered her Delphic surface area, and her icy glance was of sinister effect indicating she owned torpedo eyes.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Two brief sections of uniquely insinuating style that certainly pile a plot’s ’uncanny’ strength on strength, as Olympia ventures alongside Nierman towards the sea’s broadcasting spider craft now seen to be on ‘jelly’ legs, where Pollymina somehow still woos Socrat-V7 in a most strange way, thus wooing a main-frame whose ‘life’ is now prophesised to be on land in a startling vision of it among humans at the very end of these two sections.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28056" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-20T09:08:25+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 20, 2024 at 9:08 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28056" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The electrical turbines were brought forth before it was the turn of the digital artefacts: <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">long may they reign</i>. With the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fulcrum</i>’s engines still running full steam ahead, there had been continual extrapolations from the population squawking into the square microphones.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">In the previous section, I imagined Socrat-V7 coming from the sea’s direction like ‘man’ once did primevally. Now we have ‘GOSUB’ following a Latin passage that presages Socrat-V7 taking us into outer space as new stage of evolution. A sense of hope. Some of the pronounal interactions between Pollymina and Socrat-V7 have to be read to be believed. One day those who will read today’s section of this book may well be whiling away their time on a similar once far- but now near-future journey?<br />There is some great writing in this section to please them, I guess. To do justice, I would have to quote the whole chapter. Leading to thoughts — amid earlier echoes in my mind of whirring turbine noise with steady pistons in this section — of Pollymina’s absent friend, Abi.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28056#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28060" style="border: 0px; 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font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 21, 2024 at 9:19 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28060" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Like the inclement weather, windiness that had riven the whole plateau, here too many may well have been ambushed by a similar virus.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Read by me today, 21.1.24. And I see that the bic-penned and Greek lettered individuals are now ‘famous’, as all spear-carriers should be, each reader of this book, too. Another mighty section that crosses boundaries where we start to gain accretive glimpses of things I’ve never glimpsed before, you, too, no doubt, viz, what it’s like to be involved with two main computers, Socrat-V7 and Cob-Irena, with gender pronouns, each in ‘bonding-loop’ with the other, and the mention of ‘artificial intelligence’, too, and ‘avuncular didactics’, and some of the book’s other characters, Michalis, Andrej etc., accrue actions that define them via their chemical body mulch and brain power, all laced with factory megaphones, concepts of the virus, Solage base, Jaye seas, CPU, BIOS, more blue smocks (worn by autocrats, it seems) and blue-coloured ice. And to read this book in the best manner possible one should pay due, if not slavish, attention to this section’s own embedded and telling passage ever-resonating with these words… </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It could not trust any human to cogitate properly the logical paths following any truthful fashion of their reality. Before returning to them the wisdom it had gained streaming bite-sized gossip, the microphone took from them that what was constant chatter. It extracted out of the booth a do tell narrative as filed directly from a syndication of information given by the subject.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28060#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28063" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-22T09:59:50+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 22, 2024 at 9:59 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28063" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The next section is almost a standalone horror story, a horror potentially for humanity in general, but with all the implications of the book’s context embedded in it, as Piquadador and his ventriloquism insidiously come to bear on Pollymina’s interaction with Socrat-V7. There is too much quotable here to choose as examples! I shall be pleased when this book (that I know for a fact has been worked upon as their first book since 2011 by a close family relative) is generally available for others to read for themselves. I am currently using an advance copy.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28063#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28065" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28065" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-23T09:20:20+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 23, 2024 at 9:20 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28065" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“As a smaller boat compared with the <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rose Fulcrum</i>, this sky yacht was a beautiful specimen; before construction the water bird was copied out onto blue parchment from an ideal form attributed to many similar barges ornately designed depicting valour — each being slender and provided with three silken sails uniformly curved towards the sun and attached to two solar masts designed according to the sailor’s preference.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">That stylish beauty of scene contrasts with the bitter battle of wills that’s taking place in its vicinity. A highly cinematic scene where the dramatis personae are ‘audited’. And the plot pans out, too, nip and tuck. Piquadador, “authoritarian mountebank”, master of the spidery manse, with angry genuflects and windmill arms, still the horror villain with his own hoodlums, someone with his own ‘italic portals’ in his big speeches to camera, and Pollymina trying to escape him with the bolt gun already taken by the yawning ground, as she once tried to escape the ‘clock beetle’, and for a while she is now succeeding, but she sees not her own reflection in a puddle but Violet’s mugshot, unless I am mistaken. All such action accentuated by one easily missable glimpse explicitly towards YOU the reader as if through a fourth wall, you being implicitly glimpsed by a drone even though you do not glimpse the drone at all without such a penetration of the fourth wall!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28065#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28067" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-24T09:33:26+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 24, 2024 at 9:33 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28067" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Piquadador would be a potent force provided Olympia and himself worked exactly as if they were conjoined at the hip. So far, they were separate entities supported by two legs apiece, one a flesh dossier with electronic matter extracted from Violet’s leftovers, the other boasted he was a man bred from the larvae derivatives plentiful on the insect farms.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">You will need your wits about you reading this narrative as if written by an omniscience that somehow seems likely to be embedded in all the readers allowed to read it, a narrative sometimes firmly on-all-fours, sometimes tottering on two legs, my own metaphors for its (I know this is an over-used word but here it happens to be true) UNIQUE style. Also a UNIQUE plot, and I should know this to be the case, if you can do a stocktake of all the works that I have submitted to this type of book review over many years on this website, a working experience on my part now constructively subsumed by this book’s still evolving gestalt made up of multiple scenarios and multiple eras of time, convening a virus, a famine, waging wars, computers’ brainstorming with, inter alia, ‘saltwater organisms’, plus gradually developing human characters good and evil, and a gradually comprehendible SF plot via tantalisingly evading turns of phrase, and here today is more than just a reconvening of SOC and COB, there is even a sort of appearance by Socrates himself. In these sections as read today, we journey from ‘obscure loop to loop’ to an ‘immaculate conception’ as borne out by some of the factors above. A passion of the reading moment that will stick with me, I trust, as I proceed even further into this book.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28067#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28071" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28071" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-25T09:49:21+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 25, 2024 at 9:49 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28071" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The worm quickly gazed at <i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the last man standing.</i>”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Edwardian music hall and swelling tongues etc, today’s sections deploy body horror fiction at its most effective, a scenario by turns monster-monstrous, mainframe-monstrous and human-metabolising, and I will not spoil it all by giving here reasons why it is so effective, although a lot of it stems from the book’s style to which any reader will have grown acclimatised having read this far into the book, nor shall I hint at how it affects the plot itself, and which main characters become disposed-of as spear-carriers and, indeed, whether such disposals are only temporary. The aura of the old TV series ‘Blake’s Seven’ comes to my mind sometimes?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28071#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-28073" style="border: 0px; 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/#comment-28073" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-26T10:06:27+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 26, 2024 at 10:06 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28073" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Precise locations still confused ‘<i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">her’</i> for the march across vector coordinates was not preconceived, it was discovered slowly by trial-and-error tactics.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">These two sections headed THE TROUSER PEOPLE seem so compelling, I have decided to place them here: <a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/6372-2/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/6372-2/</a> as a whole crucial sample. If interested, please request the password from me at: <a href="mailto:dflewis48@hotmail.com" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">dflewis48@hotmail.com</a>. These sections represent an apotheosis of this book in the human-like rapprochement of SOC and COB, in the context of their ‘genders’ and the contextual plot-lines such as the use of Elégiac and our human destiny and much else — and the sections also provide a prime example of this book’s use of its own nurture of a uniquely disarming style when placed in contiguity with such plot-lines and concepts so as to provide the book’s inspiring and/or anxious visions to the optimum. A calling of some hope in my ears echoing along with the last two words of these two sections of the book: ‘Mayday Mayday!’</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/solage-by-a-nimbus-5/?replytocom=28073#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png") center center no-repeat; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-28075" style="border: 0px; 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color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/</a></p><figure class="wp-block-image" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><img alt="IMG_8155" class="wp-image-46193" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/img_8155.jpeg" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: bottom;" /></figure><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My previous review of this author’s novel QUILT: <a href="https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/novel-doodlings/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/novel-doodlings/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…and his THIS THING CALLED LITERATURE: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/this-thing-called-literature-andrew-bennett-nicholas-royle/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/this-thing-called-literature-andrew-bennett-nicholas-royle/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">….and his AN ENGLISH GUIDE TO BIRD-WATCHING: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/an-english-guide-to-birdwatching-a-novel-by-nicholas-royle/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/an-english-guide-to-birdwatching-a-novel-by-nicholas-royle/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">…and his THE TRANCE OF READING and ELIZABETH BOWEN AND THE DISSOLUTION OF THE NOVEL: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/the-trance-of-reading/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/11/12/the-trance-of-reading/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DAVID BOWIE, ENID BLYTON AND THE SUN MACHINE: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/david-bowie-enid-blyton-and-the-sun-machine-nicholas-royle/" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/11/29/david-bowie-enid-blyton-and-the-sun-machine-nicholas-royle/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Inexplicable</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“: the uncanny undoes any certainty about what is real and what is not, about where literature ends and real life or science or psychoanalysis or philosophy or literary criticism begins.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indeed!<br />My next job, as result of this book, is somehow to read the story INEXPLICABLE by L.G. Moberly from the Strand Magazine 1917 (importantly factored in by Freud to his essay entitled ‘The Uncanny’). I shall then add a review of it to my reviews of other Uncanny stories listed <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/separate-horror-stories-from-many-years-ago/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a> and then return to this review of the Royle book to further discuss.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2411#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2412" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2412" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2412" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 14, 2024 at 12:34 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2412" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have now managed to read and review it in ironically double-quick time:</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="nadmrFSCmV" frameborder="0" height="279" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/inexplicable-1917-by-l-g-moberly/embed/#?secret=joD5Wdz0xZ#?secret=nadmrFSCmV" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="“INEXPLICABLE (1917) by L.G. Moberly” — The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews" width="600"></iframe></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2412#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2414" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2414" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2414" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 15, 2024 at 10:18 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2414" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Buried Alive</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The first few pages of this chapter bring back to what I said about Ligotti, the exhumation from burial-in-utero forced out by Mummy, then life and pain via light against darkness towards a different Mummification of nothingness, making the whole thing worth nemonisimg ab initio as never happening in the first place? And, now, Ligotti’s leitmotif of ‘soft black stars’ is here in the Royle re-arranged from the Freud Uncanny essay as section breaks!</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Before continuing reading this chapter further, I shall re-read and review Poe’s ‘The Premature Burial’ to be set alongside all my previous reviews of Poe. (A po is what I remember my mother and grandmother using when caught short at night or because they did not want to visit the cold outside loo. Me, too.)</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2414#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2415" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2415" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And so it has been:</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="vhSkvqN8TR" frameborder="0" height="405" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/the-premature-burial-by-edgar-allan-poe/embed/#?secret=hqEDHj5oKG#?secret=vhSkvqN8TR" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="“The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe” — The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews" width="600"></iframe></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2416" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 15, 2024 at 7:52 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2416" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This chapter by Royle is deep and detailed, and I sense it is a temporary sleep or sloop, before the ‘magic pinions and wizard wheels’ start turning again 20 years after THE UNCANNY was first published, not Freud’s but Royle’s: a ‘Premature Burial’ within this topic of study. Still buried by the casket of his name but flirting with the freedom of anonymity via voluntary severance or even sharing a relatively celebrated name with another person in a different but similar field of fiction writing or non-fiction study – and I see from the contents list, this book has a chapter later entitled THE DOUBLE.<br />Anyway, after dealing, in this current chapter, with Dostoevsky and Harold Bloom as well as with Poe, I relished that many other literary figures with celebrated name-traps have also been given textual Premature Burial references on these pages within diagrammatic caskets or coffins!</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2416#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2419" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2419" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2419" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 16, 2024 at 2:50 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2419" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">11. Déjà Vu</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Excluded, <i>déjà vu</i> is more uncannily active in Freud’s essay than if it were included.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Both a Freudian slip, as explicitly mentioned here, and not a Freudian slip. As this expression when defined in dictionaries, seems to be its own version of the ‘double’, but a double of opposite meanings, a fact of which I was unaware until now. Another deep and detailed chapter, one about this expression vis à vis the nature of returns in the uncanny and the Uncanny, and all the nuances and paradoxes of false and real memories including their preternatural sense that one might find, I guess, in ghost stories etc.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My own very recently written fiction miniature, ‘The Gruesome Guestroom’, that features this expression from outset: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/08/14/the-gruesome-guestroom/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/08/14/the-gruesome-guestroom/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2419#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-2420" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2420" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2420" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 16, 2024 at 3:39 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2420" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Having put out feelers to the hive mind of Facebook friends regarding any well-known ghost stories that deal with the ‘déjà vu’, I was offered, among others, two stories I have reviewed, viz. THE SIGNALMAN by Charles Dickens and the THE BUS CONDUCTOR by E.F. Benson, and although I do not mention this expression in these reviews (just re-read), déjà vu as an expression is the elephant in their proverbial rooms, I guess, just as Freud meaningfully omitted the expression. in his essay on ‘The Uncanny’. I leave you to make your minds up and perhaps counter-comment below in due course.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EF Benson: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/35138-2/#comment-24735" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/35138-2/#comment-24735</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Charles Dickens: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/06/17/the-signal-man-charles-dickens/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/06/17/the-signal-man-charles-dickens/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2420#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2425" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2425" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2425" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 17, 2024 at 10:36 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2425" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">12. The Double / 13. Chance Encounter</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You can fool me some of the time, but you can’t fool me all of the time.<br />Depends on which of me you attempt to fool at any point of pointless rhyme.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two writers rhyming: a Nicholas of the ‘Royle we’. I always thought they were two people, and I am now leaning in the opposite direction, because of the perceived MUP connection and a story called ‘Chance Encounter’, published as if by one Nicholas reprinted here by the other Nicholas, does not seem to exist other than here. The photograph published here of both of them together is a mock-up I claim, as the film star image of the one Nicholas I have not met does not match up with the prior image of him in my mind’s eye. </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I guess I need face to face advice as to whether to blend together these two separate pages below of my reviews of Royle’s work:-</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="I5ri4wkIH3" frameborder="0" height="718" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/14748-2/embed/#?secret=zxKYLymKzk#?secret=I5ri4wkIH3" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="“My Reviews of Nicholas Royle” — The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews" width="600"></iframe></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="WTZvdBvsxJ" frameborder="0" height="468" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" sandbox="allow-scripts" scrolling="no" security="restricted" src="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/17/my-reviews-of-nicholas-royle/embed/#?secret=tYXAgygfeW#?secret=WTZvdBvsxJ" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="“My reviews of Nicholas Royle” — The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews" width="600"></iframe></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The death of the heart surely doesn’t matter<br />If another can host the next ‘knit and natter’.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">***<br />I note that the next as yet unread chapter deals with ‘cannibalism’ and I thought I might pre-empt it with this link to my old controversial article on ‘Cannibalism in Robert Aickman’ (small echoes of which theme I later publicly identified in Elizabeth Bowen): <a href="https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/robert-aickman-and-cannibalism/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/robert-aickman-and-cannibalism/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2425#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-2426" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CHANCE ENCOUNTER by Nicholas Royle</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Coincidences become significant only when close together in time.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">First published NEON LIT (Time Out 1999) or by Nemonymous No-One Unlit…<br />I am beginning to believe this was a real publication and one by the Nicholas Royle version whom I have not met, but about this I am still unsure.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Potentially, a prophetically ‘trans’ man or woman in a restaurant obsessed with the nature of coincidences and numbers, unsightly areas between his or her toes, and what Freud plainly said about the number 62. Writing this on my birthdate anniversary of 18.01.48.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2426#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2429" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2429" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2429" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 19, 2024 at 11:10 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2429" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">14. Cannibalism: for starters</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A secret starter… (love the theme and variations here on ‘starters’!)</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I reviewed the ‘Secret Sharer’ (body sharing as in cannibalism?) by Joseph Conrad here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/joseph-conrad-the-secret-sharer/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/05/30/joseph-conrad-the-secret-sharer/</a>, with a further link to my review of his ‘Amy Foster’ in the comments thereof. Secret Sharer as an expression seems uncannily as well as cannily cannibalistic as what I also see as ‘sin-eating’ in Dickens’ Magwitch and Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain witches. I shall have to re-read Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Freud’s UNCANNY essay itself to appreciate further this truly fascinating Royle chapter that mentions them both.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2429#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-2430" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2433" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 19, 2024 at 4:53 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2433" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just received another book written by Nicholas Royle that will be my next reading of his work:<br /><img alt="IMG_8303" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-46647 alignnone" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2024/01/img_8303.jpeg?w=990" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 2px; max-width: 100%;" /></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2433#respond" style="border: 0px; 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2435" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 20, 2024 at 10:43 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2435" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">15. Manifestations of Insanity: <i>Hunger</i> and contemporary fiction</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I’m going to talk about literature. Serious literature.”<br />– from THE LECTURE TOUR by Knut Hamsun (my review here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/a-lecture-tour-knut-hamsun" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/06/30/a-lecture-tour-knut-hamsun</a>)</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This chapter is a sort of ‘mad’ Shandyesque monologue on something called ‘contemporary fiction’ that I deem to be literature that can work for me in canny synergy with genre fiction of the uncanny old and new. The chapter deals, inter alia, with Knut’s Hunger and Paul Auster and a novel I’ve never heard of: The Trick is To Keep Breathing (1989) by Janice Galloway.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Studies in Literature. Full Semester (in lieu of required Freshman Composition course because of F.’s good score on A.P. exam): A seminar focused on the study of one book: ‘<i>Tristram Shandy</i>’.”<br />— Paul Auster (4321) – my old detailed review of the huge 4321 here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/4-3-2-1-paul-auster/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/4-3-2-1-paul-auster/</a> where I wrote: ‘Hank & Frank, due to become perhaps the most substantial double-act digression in all literature.’ and ‘This novel is becoming seriously great literature, if it hasn’t already become so. And my using the word ‘literature’ should not be a put-off to anyone.’<br />(My old detailed review of ‘Tristram Shandy’: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/tristram-shandy/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/03/15/tristram-shandy/</a>)</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“What did this mean about the world? That everyone in it was more or less hidden, and because we were all other than what we appeared to be, it was next to impossible to know who everyone was. You wonder now if that sense of not knowing wasn’t responsible for making you so passionate about books — because the secrets of the characters who lived inside novels were always, in the end, made known.”<br />— from ‘Report from the Interior’ by Paul Auster</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ironically, even then, we can never know who is who. And what we think we know.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2435#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2436" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2436" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2436" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 20, 2024 at 10:54 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2436" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Just discovered I have earlier reviewed two stories by Janice Galloway…</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DISTANCE: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2016/#comment-12701" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/best-british-short-stories-2016/#comment-12701</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘last thing’: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/35138-2/#comment-24790" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/35138-2/#comment-24790</a> — ‘An effective horror story that also should be anthologised as such.’</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2436#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ul></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2440" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); 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A crowded after-life</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“‘Birth was the death of him’: so ‘A Piece of Monologue’ begins.” – Nicholas Royle</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This, for me, is another monologue itself, a talk on Samuel Beckett, as a Cane Asylum bed-fellow to the previous chapter’s monologue. My old review of all Beckett’s shorter fiction: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/the-complete-samuel-beckett-short-prose/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/07/16/the-complete-samuel-beckett-short-prose/</a> Some quotes from Beckett quoted in this review.<br />“Into what nightmare thingness am I fallen?” — “, watch out for the genuine death-pangs, some are deceptive, you think you’re home, start howling and revive,…” —“What mattered to me in my dispeopled kingdom, that in regard to which the disposition of my carcass was the merest and most futile of accidents, was supineness in the mind, the dulling of the self and of that residue of execrable frippery known as the non-self and even the world.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2440#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-even depth-1" id="li-comment-2441" style="border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2441" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2441" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 22, 2024 at 11:22 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2441" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17. To be announced</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The lengthy chapter that is next, I am afraid, seems mostly above my head, as if I had already missed the train that was announced, or failed to make due connections, via various points, to the nature of dream and death. Or was it cancelled due to last night’s Storm Isha?<br />It does, however, short of being awakened by Storm Osmo to a fuller understanding, seem associated with my earlier aforementioned concept of Zeno’s Paradox (often mentioned in my past reviews of uncanny fiction) and here such a concept is related to The Uncanny posited by this book. Never ever quite reaching death, of which I am an example?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2441#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2442" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2442" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2442" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 23, 2024 at 9:16 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2442" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">18. Mole</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Starting with a quote from Hélène Cixous, this further Shandyesque meditation by Royle — with typographical containers looser than the previous caskets — precedes child-rearing references to MOLE in his ‘Enid Blyton, David Bowie and the sun machine’ (2023) which was in turn a possible retroactive upon how it was used in the past when this Uncanny book was published or before? Whack a Mole, each mole a synchronicity, like the girl with a mole on her back in Elizabeth Bowen and my earlier review of the quite famous MOLE KING story here: <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-big-book-of-modern-fantasy-3/#comment-1132" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-big-book-of-modern-fantasy-3/#comment-1132</a> and the now covid-forgotten ‘The Rule of Six’ (aka ‘the Sixous’) mentioned, again regarding the Mole King, about another story in the same book here: <a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/807-2/#comment-682" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/807-2/#comment-682</a>, and more.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘Eventernal Slumber’: <a href="https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=8476&page=3" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php?t=8476&page=3</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2443#respond" style="border: 0px; 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cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2446" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 24, 2024 at 11:42 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2446" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">19. The ‘telepathy effect’: notes toward a reconsideration of narrative fiction</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is uncanny knowledge. Someone is telling us what someone else is thinking, feeling or perceiving. That someone else may not even be aware of experiencing these thoughts, feelings or perceptions. The history of criticism of the novel is the history of the attempts to deal, or avoid dealing, with this seemingly mad scenario.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Judging by my ‘gestalt real-time reviewing’ on this very website and my own earlier thoughts on it (see the ‘earlier thinking’ link about such reviewing here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/navigation-backstory/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/navigation-backstory/</a>), any regular readers of my reviews will readily understand that I have been particularly interested by this chapter, as a discussion of ‘omniscience’, ‘point of view’, ‘clairvoyance’, telepathy’ and ‘mole-like’ ‘tunnelling’ regarding narrative fiction and literary criticism.<br />This chapter mentions, inter alios, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Salman Rushdie. </p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arguably relevant to this chapter:<br />My truncated review of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/06/10/mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf/</a><br />My various detailed reviews of Salman Rushdie novels: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salman-rushdie/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/tag/salman-rushdie/</a><br />The George Eliot connections in my review here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/survivor-song-paul-tremblay/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/07/10/survivor-song-paul-tremblay/</a></p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And I can’t resist quoting my favourite quotation from Robert Aickman in his ‘Notes on Delius’ regarding ‘clairvoyance’ in literary criticism:-<br />“As there is no intrinsic virtue in denigration, the critic who resorts to it, should be required to pass a test of qualification and sensitivity, at least twice as stringent as that imposed upon a critic who loves. Normally, love is not blind but clairvoyant. […] Moreover, there is some degree of absolute nobility in praise; and a high degree of ignominy in belittlement, even in justified belittlement. The capacity for praise that is at once warm and discerning implies a degree of fineness in the critic that is, alas, rare in anyone. These truths are so simple and obvious as to call for unfailing repetition.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2446#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2450" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2450" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2450" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 25, 2024 at 10:37 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2450" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">20. Phantom Text</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Nihilism stands at the door, whence comes the uncanniest of all guests?” – Jacques Derrida</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You are my guests, says Thomas Ligotti, the famous fiction writer and anti-natalist, while Derrida, Marxism, Gnosticism, Nag Hammadi texts are <i>his </i>guests — mutual guests, arguably without even meeting? (My thoughts, not <i>necessarily </i>this chapter’s.)<br />More fascinating considerations in this chapter that affect, for me, what I have done with ‘gestalt real-time reviewing’ as well as my own fiction, and hopefully vice versa, all by means of an uncannily canny form of retrocausal osmosis on both sides?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2450#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div><ul class="children" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: inherit; list-style: square; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor even depth-2" id="li-comment-2451" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2451" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2451" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 25, 2024 at 10:40 am</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2451" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This chapter mentions FINNEGANS WAKE. My old detailed review of it: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/finnegans-wake-james-joyce/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2014/02/05/finnegans-wake-james-joyce/</a></p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2451#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt depth-2" id="li-comment-2452" style="border-color: currentcolor; border-image: none; border-style: none; border-width: 0px 0px medium; 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The Private Parts of Jesus Christ</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Concerned with ‘founding another religion’ or ‘refounding all of them . . . playfully’ (C, p. 222), Derrida’s autobiothanatoheterographical ‘Circumfession’ is one of his most bizarre texts.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This chapter will blow your mind or frustrate your understanding or offend your religious or phallic sensibilities or all of these at once! Or it may additionally be just another day’s routine reading in the Uncanny. Or it may seem to be a university academic article with footnotes taken to its own extreme self-satirical limits. Whatever the case, you need to experience it at least once in your reading life, if only to maintain your life in existence till you decide upon the act of reading it, a decision dependant upon the way you seem to have been persuaded to do so by this review.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2454#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-2457" style="background: rgb(245, 245, 245); border-color: currentcolor currentcolor rgb(187, 187, 187); border-image: none; border-style: none none dotted; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-style: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-container" id="comment-2457" style="background: rgb(233, 246, 252); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: -15px 0px -5px -10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 5px 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="comment-author vcard" style="border: 0px; font-size: 17px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="avatar avatar-48 wp-hovercard-attachment grav-hashed grav-hijack" decoding="async" height="48" loading="lazy" src="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G" srcset="https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=48&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=72&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=96&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=144&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/ac9b7393ed06d09d4ac86efae5cc7a2397fffa44e77e82bb052c6f8e231f0a44?s=192&d=identicon&r=G 4x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); cursor: default; height: auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 2px; position: absolute; right: 10px; top: 10px;" width="48" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite></div><div class="comment-meta commentmetadata" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/#comment-2457" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">January 26, 2024 at 1:53 pm</a> <a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/2457" style="border: 0px; color: #999999; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div><div class="comment-body" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 1.7em 10px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 style="border: 0px; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">22. Book end: <i>déjà vu</i> (reprise)</h1><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“In fits and starts we have to speak with ghosts, in order to begin to learn to live.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A treatment, inter alia, of the word ‘fit’ that only this author could attempt. If the choice of the Nicholas Royle cap fits, wear it. This is the end of my review about a book that is likely to change my death, if not so much my life, and I still hang about not finishing this review at all but speculating what else I can say about my take on the ‘uncanny’ in its light, its study of Freud, Derrida, etc., viz. to embrace this book or to shout ‘Uncannibals!’ at it. To recognise that I was already on to something when Aickman’s strange stories taught me more about the gluiness of Zeno’s Paradox than philosophy. Not forgetting Thomas Ligotti’s uncanny anti-natalism. And that my own only novel ‘Nemonymous Night’ already possessed an instinct or an osmosis about such matters — and thus we reach the elbow of today’s déjà vu. Remarkably someone ‘hit’ an ancient post of mine today on my site about this novel’s stretching of age and character, a very rare event that anybody hits on it with a clicking finger heretofore, here: <a href="https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/authors-statement/" rel="nofollow ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://nemonymousnight.wordpress.com/authors-statement/</a><br />And today, in this final chapter of the Royle book, we recall Dickens’ earlier cannibal in Magwitch and now we’re reminded of the original déjà vu-ist in the character of Mr Micawber in one of Dickens’ serialised real-time novels….Something will turn up. This Royle book’s greatness surely will. Until the final clinching grasp or gestalt of what it is still teaching me….’in order to begin to learn to live.’</p><p style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“A book is not published when it is published.” – nor a real-time review.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/?replytocom=2457#respond" style="border: 0px; color: #1c9bdc; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Reply</a></div></div></li></ol><div class="comment-respond" id="respond" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 class="comment-reply-title" id="reply-title" style="border: 0px; color: 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caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I have now today brainstormed this Hoffman story as triggered by my reading of Nicholas Royle’s ‘The Uncanny’ here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">(My review of E.T.A. Hoffman’s HARD NUT story here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/the-big-book-of-classic-fantasy/#comment-16259" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/the-big-book-of-classic-fantasy/#comment-16259</a>)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SANDMAN by E.T.A. Hoffman</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“phenomenon as the omen”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“He even went so far as to say that it is foolish to think that we do anything in art and science according to our own independent will; for the inspiration which alone enables us to produce anything does not proceed from within ourselves, but is the effect of a higher principle without.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Royle’s essay on this story and on Freud’s study of this story in Freud’s own essay called ‘The Uncanny’, and I can visualise how mad and horrific it is to sense this story filling the reader with the same madness as the story contains both in spirit and substance, and it seems pointless even to try to wring meaning or synchronicities or gestalt or even deeper meaning in occult brainstorming examination etc. of the actual shape of the words in the text (it is a translation into English from its original text) or to try to derive anything from its apparent multi-levelled absurdity of evil versus the main protagonist, via a childhood threat in the shape of the Sandman and of two characters, including a salesman of barometers and lenses, who masquerade as (or actually are) the Sandman, and in the shape of the two women whom the increasingly mad protagonist loves at different times, i.e. his official sweetheart Clara and a female automaton (whether ai or not) called Olympia, and a plot involving his eyes torn out, and his hands mashed, plus his narrative letter gone astray from intended recipient to the latter’s sister who is the aforementioned sweetheart. And much more in the plot is impossible to repeat or recur in this available space I have perversely allowed myself. And the protagonist’s belief in the monster is tantamount to creating the monster in the first place, as the plot’s central theme portrays. And, so, in turn, my own belief or suspension of disbelief in this wildly nightmarishly structured story makes it even more nightmarish and uncanny, but equally, when in a different mood, all my efforts to scry this story seem arguably as worthless as knowing that ‘Coppola’, i.e. one of its characters, is an anagram of ‘alcopop’! But after I have slept tonight on what I have written about this story just now above, I dread the story coming back to haunt me tomorrow night. A hard nut to crack, like a knuckle on a mashed finger.</p></div><p><br /></p><p>THE PREMATURE BURIAL by Poe</p><p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">My previous reviews of Poe: </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-edgar-poe/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/tales-of-mystery-and-imagination-edgar-poe/</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"> and </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/06/15/the-tell-tale-heart-by-edgar-allan-poe/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/06/15/the-tell-tale-heart-by-edgar-allan-poe/</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;"> and </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/the-facts-in-the-case-of-m-valdemar/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/04/30/the-facts-in-the-case-of-m-valdemar/ </a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">and </span><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/berenice-by-edgar-allan-poe/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/berenice-by-edgar-allan-poe/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My other reviews of miscellaneous horror literture: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/separate-horror-stories-from-many-years-ago/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/separate-horror-stories-from-many-years-ago/</a> </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Today, I was instigated to re-read this story by my current review of THE UNCANNY by Nicholas Royle <a href="https://elizabethbowensite.wordpress.com/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a> and in preparation for fully reading his chapter entitled BURIED ALIVE.. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">SPOILERS beware!</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 13px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Premature Burial</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“That the ghastly extremes of agony are endured by man the unit, and never by man the mass—for this let us thank a merciful God!”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">So much that I cannot remember from my first reading of this work decades ago, including the fact learnt today that the ultimate horror is tempered by the en-tranced, cataleptic protagonist finding himself not buried alive by eventually realising he had gone to sleep in a narrow cabin on a sloop. Perhaps I was so unduly affected by the claustrophobic and spiritual terror of it, that I actually never finished it before! Or the story has morphed completely over the years! Or whether it would have been best or worst to extricate myself from the story’s Zeno’s Paradox ‘glueiness’, in hindsight?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“A certain period elapses, and some unseen mysterious principle again sets in motion the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">From examples of premature burial eloquently described by Poe to the galvanic battery and the Conqueror Worm and “Nothing became the universe.” </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The evidence of found skeletons almost as found art. The postulation of a demonic agent provocateur with these words:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> “‘I have no name in the regions which I inhabit,’ replied the voice, mournfully; ‘I was mortal, but am fiend. I was merciless, but am pitiful.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The most memorable vision of all in the text as evidence of mass premature burials outweighing those that were not premature: </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I could see into the innermost recesses, and there view the shrouded bodies in their sad and solemn slumbers with the worm. But alas! the real sleepers were fewer, by many millions, than those who slumbered not at all; and there was a feeble struggling; and there was a general sad unrest; and from out the depths of the countless pits there came a melancholy rustling from the garments of the buried.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The precautions the protagonist takes so that he will not be buried alive: </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The slightest pressure upon a long lever that extended far into the tomb would cause the iron portal to fly back. There were arrangements also for the free admission of air and light, and convenient receptacles for food and water,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The other precautions against Royle’s P.O. Night Letters? – </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I read no “Night Thoughts”—no fustian about churchyards—no bugaboo tales—such as this. In short, I became a new man, and lived a man’s life.” (P.O., Poe)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The terrified protagonist asleep in the sloop’s constricted cabin is awakened by a gruff voice:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"> “Hillo! hillo, there!” Why Hillo, and not Hello? </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">The remarkable ending seems relevant to that question: “</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell—but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful—but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us—they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Earlier: </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Total annihilation could be no more.” And the intense and auditorily incomprehensible shout of “I am alive,…” perhaps this Valdemar cri-de-cœur and the ‘New Nonsense’ of Ligotti together serve to make anti-natalism both comprehensible and incomprehensible? The uncanny paradox. Now unlocked by the lever that I had already set in place for me to pull. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Darkness, silence, solitude… To repeat as recurrence or refraining: ‘the magic pinions and the wizard wheels.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“—they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">PS: Sleep as (s)loop?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">=======================================</p><div class="content-area col-left" id="primary" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; float: left; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 624px;"><div class="site-content" id="content" role="main" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><article class="post-46520 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-46520" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="entry-header" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 1.85em; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I<a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2024/01/14/inexplicable-1917-by-l-g-moberly/" rel="bookmark" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 24.049999px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Permalink to INEXPLICABLE (1917) by L.G. 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Or compressed its slithering into a Joycean day as Freud reportedly did. I shall now return to Royle’s chapter on it. </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><h3 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“We all slept together.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">What happened at “119 , Glazebrook Terrace, in the very unromantic suburb of Prillsbury” is certainly uncanny, but even more arguably an example of THE CREEPY in the true tradition of the Zeno’s Paradox-style fiction I first discovered in Aickman’s edited Fontana anthologies and in Aickman’s own ‘strange stories’ work. Despite its straightforward workmanlike prose and its naivety and its debatable cliché of a plot of haunted furniture, here regarding an occasional table with carvings of alligators or crocodiles (and at one point they are mentioned as if being the same breed, but therefrom referred to as alligators), yes, despite this, the story certainly carries an unbeatable punch of a frisson, if a frisson <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">can</em> have a punch. The punch is in its swampy creepiness, I claim, and the fact that it was destined to be highlighted none other than by Freud when discussing the nature of ‘The Uncanny’, such an eventuality becoming retroactive upon the story itself whereby literary criticism merges with preternatural Fortean forces? Well, one can but wonder.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">At first the couple [May (the POV) and Hugh] turn an old house, perhaps appositely ‘by the middle of May’, into a liveable place, despite the dust and the drains. The table came with the house as a sort of fixture and Hugh suffers a twisted ankle in trying to transfer the table from the bedroom to the drawing-room. Note the long drawn out sense of ‘drawing’. The predictable haunting by the alligators scares the servants and extremely worries Hugh’s (who?) friend Jack Wilding who once explored distant swampland as part of his derring-do. Now scared out of his wits. The servants even announcing the uncanny refrain of all of them having to ‘sleep together’ to rid themselves of such fears. The cracking of furniture like a gunshot, notwithstanding.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Here are some quoted moments below to explicate my claims above…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘Good heavens, May, the things look so life-like I could almost have sworn one of them squirmed.’ And Hugh stood back from the table, stared at it with round eyes, and then laughed. ‘I shall be seeing rats and snakes next,’ he said, and laughed again as we left the room together.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“We turned in an army of workpeople, and by the middle of May the house <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">was</em> clean and fresh from attic to basement,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And the supposedly drunk Maria, a servant:<br /><br />“‘The cat?’ Maria flung back her head and laughed hysterically. ‘No cat slides about like that. And there was a great flop, flop. Oh, I couldn’t stop here another night, not if you was to pay me twenty thousand pounds!’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">And Jack Wilding:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“You hear it? And the stench is here too! Good God! if I thought I should ever have to cross that swamp again I should go mad!”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Something slid from between his feet—I saw a dark shape, a flash of white, and then it had vanished;”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It was bigger than twenty cats, it slipped over the floor—over the floor— and oh!”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Mrs Jenkins, a servant, takes on a role of a Joycean monologue as if from a MR James servant:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘Cats is cats, and dogs is dogs, and troubles though they both may be, and I’m not denyin’ they are, still they’re what you might call human,’ Mrs Jenkins said grandly, but I noticed that for all her grandiloquence she was shaking from head to foot. ‘The animals what come slithering in and out o’ the scullery and kitchen—they ain’t human. Runnin’ on their underneaths, with paws as don’t seem a bit o’ use to ’em.’”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">But then, like the ‘flash’ above, the ‘lightning’ below sheds a new contrast of Nemo/Id and Ego with the slow creepiness:</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“A frozen horror must have paralyzed his speech, as it prevented me from uttering a syllable, and we stood there clutching each other and looking at the stairs, down which in the dusk we could see a huge shape gliding at lightning speed. Another was coming more slowly out of the drawing-room door, and from amongst the dark shadows of the hall came sounds of sliding and pattering—sounds which made my very blood run cold.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">you?</p></h3></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="edit-link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="post-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/post/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/46520" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; 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I felt like a doctor who pursued viruses with medical unctions. But at that stage, nobody had predicted the nature of such an analogy to explain what I did, until what I did do became an analogy of what doctors did, too. You see, viruses were soon discovered to have ghosts of their own that equally required being exorcised rather than being hosed down with antiseptics or bombed with antibiotics. The long and the short of it were (yes ‘were’, not ‘was’) that I found myself fighting two analogies ganging up on myself as the only ‘firefighter’ they feared. Medicine or religion they feared not in equal measures. As an official ghoster, I wielded a form of exorcism that had nothing within it based on either medicine or religion; it simply was a technique involving the power of fiction-against-infection. This meant any infection caused by medical negligence or wishful panacea or quack remedy needed to be dispersed and dispensed from its effect on the human body or human mind by an art form of which this missive as fiction is only one example. And if you examine the underlying DNA structure within every word in this missive as my main weapon against the ghosts of people or the ghosts of viruses, even the ghosts of ghosts, you should also take into account that such a structure needed at least one typo or a wrongly employed semi-colon (not both!) as a trigger for the infection to be sufficiently combated by the therapeutic function of fiction. But such a method needed to be used judiciously in order to be efficacious against the increasing number of tangible monsters that masquerade as ghosters like me. Wordplay tricks, on the other hand, were said to be counterproductive to this goal. And neologisms have always been a definite no-no when trying to combat the conspiracy against the human race about which this missive is intended to give due warning without undue recourse to revisionary or proofing work upon the words and the syntax that bound such words together in the first place. On the face of it, a failed missive is much better than a snail-mailed one. 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padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/</a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">(My review of E.T.A. Hoffman’s HARD NUT story here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/the-big-book-of-classic-fantasy/#comment-16259" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/the-big-book-of-classic-fantasy/#comment-16259</a>)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">THE SANDMAN by E.T.A. Hoffman</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“phenomenon as the omen”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“He even went so far as to say that it is foolish to think that we do anything in art and science according to our own independent will; for the inspiration which alone enables us to produce anything does not proceed from within ourselves, but is the effect of a higher principle without.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Royle’s essay on this story and on Freud’s study of this story in Freud’s own essay called ‘The Uncanny’, and I can visualise how mad and horrific it is to sense this story filling the reader with the same madness as the story contains both in spirit and substance, and it seems pointless even to try to wring meaning or synchronicities or gestalt or even deeper meaning in occult brainstorming examination etc. of the actual shape of the words in the text (it is a translation into English from its original text) or to try to derive anything from its apparent multi-levelled absurdity of evil versus the main protagonist, via a childhood threat in the shape of the Sandman and of two characters, including a salesman of barometers and lenses, who masquerade as (or actually are) the Sandman, and in the shape of the two women whom the increasingly mad protagonist loves at different times, i.e. his official sweetheart Clara and a female automaton (whether ai or not) called Olympia, and a plot involving his eyes torn out, and his hands mashed, plus his narrative letter gone astray from intended recipient to the latter’s sister who is the aforementioned sweetheart. And much more in the plot is impossible to repeat or recur in this available space I have perversely allowed myself. And the protagonist’s belief in the monster is tantamount to creating the monster in the first place, as the plot’s central theme portrays. And, so, in turn, my own belief or suspension of disbelief in this wildly nightmarishly structured story makes it even more nightmarish and uncanny, but equally, when in a different mood, all my efforts to scry this story seem arguably as worthless as knowing that ‘Coppola’, i.e. one of its characters, is an anagram of ‘alcopop’! But after I have slept tonight on what I have written about this story just now above, I dread the story coming back to haunt me tomorrow night. A hard nut to crack, like a knuckle on a mashed finger.</p></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="edit-link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="post-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/post/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/46479" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></span></footer></article><article class="post-46474 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-46474" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2.618em; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><header class="entry-header" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; 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font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I am most grateful to today’s chapter of THE UNCANNY by Nicholas Royle for the alert to many things that may have already been part of me by means of some angel guardian or daemon muse or unknown kindred spirit as ‘concursor’ of which I have, until now, been unaware, one of these many things being the word ‘concursor’ itself here connected with D.H. Lawrence, whose ‘Women In Love’ novel invoked in me an essay in 1967 of which I was most proud as a student. More recently, I reviewed (with two further links to my reviews of ‘The Prussian Officer’ and ‘The Daughters of the Vicar) <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/05/25/the-rocking-horse-winner/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>: ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’ story by Lawrence that is mentioned in this chapter.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Also while absorbing this chapter’s thoughts about returns, recurrences, repeats, doubles, silences, blanks etc. (also see the aforementioned Nemonymous) in connection with the DEATH DRIVE contextualised by the subject matter and references in this Royle book on the uncanny and the eerie as now differentiated (and dare I also mention a further slant known as the ostranenie?), I thought of the work of Thomas Ligotti, a great writer of Weird Fiction, comprising Horror and Ghost Story and Uncanny and Philosophical Anti-Natalism, the latter Emil Cioran type aspect actually denying the experience of the death drive by not being born at all! Something here seems to generate the ultimate gestalt of the Uncanny and Literature and La Vie Inconnu and the Blank of Silence, i.e. this inability to repeat or return by not doing it once? (I started reading Ligotti many years before the Penguin Classics edition of his work and my reviews are linked <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/11/27/le-noeud-de-ligotti/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>.)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">From my review here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/the-uncanny-by-nicholas-royle/" style="border: 0px; 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text-decoration: none; text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 1px 1px 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 35px;">1 </a></span></li></ul></div></header><div class="entry-content" style="border: 0px; counter-reset: footnotes 0; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h3 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">You somehow expect yourself to be already sitting there as part of the ritual of your own ablutions, a double of yourself starting the process before the real you arrives to attend to such a natural urge. This seems to be an out-of-body experience especially when you believe you are dreaming that you are doing what you see you are doing or, more likely, you are beset by a pre-empting ghost that should need no bodily ablutions at all but, by this means, it is trying desperately to return to carnal existence by mimicking your ablutions even before you reached the space it is already occupying, as if it can read the future or return from the dead to ambush your time in the tiled necessarium.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 18.200001px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I had one such dream last night, and it all seemed logical, and I was confident, upon waking, that I would be able to write it all down in a coherent and believable fashion so that anyone reading it would understand what I had dreamt. How wrong could I have been! Even my power over language seems to be on the brink of fluid elision. And I know this is becoming a half-baked attempt at describing the erstwhile rationale of the dream, while I listen to strange noises upstairs in the bathroom intermittently throughout the day. Even now, having finally put pen to paper, I hope I can gather my thoughts before I finally pluck up the courage to go upstairs and check whether the damned thing has<br />dared leave the bathroom wet wi’ water<br />‘cos that’s a thing it never oughtta.</p></h3></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="edit-link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="post-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/post/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/46472" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></span></footer></article><article class="post-46465 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" id="post-46465" style="border: 0px; 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-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 6px 0px; background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 5px; border: 3px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3) 0px 0px 6px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 1.618em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="250" />I tried my best by an adept use of foresight, but my best turned out to be not quite good enough. Meddling with the middle, and trying to topple its top, then rooting out rot at its fundaments seemed enough kinetic manhandling to deal with the upright thing but it stayed tantalisingly out of range, a thing that looked like a Dalek all wrapped up in an old pink tarpaulin, standing in the garden of a derelict house in Aickman Road, evidently without any interference to it, perhaps literally for centuries. Whether the colour was exactly pink did not seem to be important at the time, but now, in hindsight, any doubt expands until such doubt becomes all consuming. Time as a phenomenon entails that colour must stay out of kilter with monochrome, and I am old enough to remember the colour injections in the early 1950s to which we were all made to submit and then airbrush from our memories, except for the odd person like me who somehow recalled it all happening, with the repeated assurance that further injections would not be needed and new babies from then on would not be colour blind at all by dint of some other process the details of which even I myself have forgotten. The long and the short of it is, I doubt it is a Dalek at all. But I hope to have enthralled you with its truncated tail.</span></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></p></div><footer class="entry-meta" style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="edit-link" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="post-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/post/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/46465" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></span></footer></article></div></div><div class="widget-area col-right" id="secondary" role="complementary" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; float: right; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 297.59375px;"><aside class="widget widget_text" id="text-2" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 2em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="textwidget" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Des Lewis will be 76 years old on 18 January 2024</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Those who have read these episodic brainstorming reviews of mine must know they are very personal — rough-shod and spontaneous. Synchronicity and anagram mixed. I know they are not professional, never potentially publishable other than in the madness of my head, but I do hope they show grains of dark truth and cosmic panache.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/previous-sidebar/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-42386 aligncenter" height="159" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/img_5442.jpeg" srcset="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/img_5442.jpeg 159w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/05/img_5442.jpeg?w=150&h=150 150w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-out; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="159" /></a><br />These Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews were founded in 2008.</b></p><h4 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/previous-sidebar/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15.6px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-36170 aligncenter" height="99" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/c19abd92-b3ff-4b13-b690-bf78dd160443.jpeg" srcset="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/c19abd92-b3ff-4b13-b690-bf78dd160443.jpeg 215w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/c19abd92-b3ff-4b13-b690-bf78dd160443.jpeg?w=150&h=69 150w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; font-size: 15.6px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-out; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="215" /></a></h4><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘What’s the loveliest word in the English language, officer? In the sound it makes in your mouth, in the shape it makes on the page? What do you think? Well now, I’ll tell you: E-L-B-O-W. Elbow.’ — </em>THE SINGING DETECTIVE</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/08/03/in-hindsight/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-36510 aligncenter" height="231" loading="lazy" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2022/08/78404c0f-0512-4b17-8d63-decffa25b0c4.jpeg?w=148" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-out; vertical-align: bottom;" width="148" /></a></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“How shall a man find his way unless he lose it?” — Walter de la Mare</strong></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><a href="https://etepsed.wordpress.com/new-dfl-ghost-stories-commenced-in-later-2023/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-39513 aligncenter" height="200" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px" src="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/cf5aa225-e60d-4cfa-96eb-21b21a8d6280.jpeg" srcset="https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/cf5aa225-e60d-4cfa-96eb-21b21a8d6280.jpeg 230w, https://dflewisreviews.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/cf5aa225-e60d-4cfa-96eb-21b21a8d6280.jpeg?w=150&h=130 150w" style="border: 0px; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-out; vertical-align: bottom; width: auto;" width="230" /></a></p><h2 style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Cherry Swash", sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></h2><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/mansions-as-miniatures//" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> </a>To any current genre author I have reviewed before — if you have a new story recently published or soon to be published in a collection or anthology, you may have a review by me of the story that also showcases where it is published. See <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/39772/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>. (This is because I am no longer well enough to review as many books as I once did.)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Fresh Fictions, free to read <a href="https://howivi.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/index-of-the-mansion-miniatures-by-d-f-lewis/" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">HERE</a>.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">No AI input in preparation of my texts whatsoever</p></div></aside></div><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: "Libre Baskerville", serif; font-size: 14px; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 1.618em; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><br /></p>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-78419850851753924102024-01-12T17:17:00.002+00:002024-01-12T17:17:25.716+00:00Pieces of Peter<p> <strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The wall was mad, it made no sense, made of cement and carefully laid brick; it suddenly spoke out aloud about pieces of Peter. Blue skies and pain, and a voice that screamed for help, a voice belonging to someone called Peter, I assumed — an assumption that gave me the first clue that I was there at all in order to assume anything. But my memory was short till the very end.</strong></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was later I noticed that another wall faced the original wall and ran parallel with it, leaving a narrow channel of no-man’s land between where there walked a few straggly sheep, sometimes halting to nibble at the scrawny weeds. It may have been winter, but it was obvious that a deep drought prevailed under a sun that had been shining in cold cloudless skies since we could all remember. And the fact that I could use the first person plural pronoun so easily now indicated that I was not alone. Walls to ‘we’ against in an uncountable amount of parallel no-man’s-land channels stretching to the blue-event horizon. Each channel with its own single variety of depleted creatures allotted their meagre grazing journeys, but journeys from where to where, I asked myself. A question to self that now showed I was further from being omniscient than I originally thought. But at least that made me think that such a thought-as-a-process was at least within my powers, however pointless any similar thoughts I happened to produce were so wide or the mark regarding truth and reality. Standing in the aisles, can you feel me? Don’t give in, without a fight.</strong></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At the moment that the last few words crystallised in my mind, I saw that my own assigned channel between walls was assigned to scrawny human beings like me, which at least gave me comfort that I was not a beast of burden nor a mindless insect in an otherwise seemingly empty channel. Which begs the question, are insects mindless? Indeed, are walls? Kafka loved slopes, you know. Wish you were here, as these narrow channels zig zag upwards to the Ark Side of Heaven. And, so, that discrete thought itself gives some credence at least to there being a retroactive meddling by a power more omniscient than myself, if not completely omniscient. And despite such illogical comparatives of omniscience, I somehow knew for certain that the walled-in channel of no-man’s-land that we followed was the optimum route to wherever we were going, if not the best. And, at the gates of dawn, I realised my name was not even Peter.</strong></p>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072760.post-31606350631853440872024-01-12T12:42:00.003+00:002024-01-12T12:42:46.472+00:00Mammals, I Think We Are Called by Giselle Leeb<p> <input class="field" id="s" name="s" placeholder="Search …" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-color: currentcolor; border-radius: 0.236em; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 46, 46); color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px; outline: currentcolor; padding: 6px 40px 6px 12px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 172.25px;" type="text" value="" /></p><header class="site-header col-full" id="masthead" role="banner" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; 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However, the most memorably poignant concept relates to his obsession in watching a permanent ‘live’ webcast of a non-gold goldfinch in its lair that is susceptible to all the freak waves and hurricanes and movements of ice floes, a goldfinch that turns out to be… no, I can’t tell you for fear of plotting spoilers.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27871#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; 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font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mammals, I Think We Are Called</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“…each with a neat title, like that Bob Dylan video where he discards the lyrics once he’s sung them.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">As part of a writer’s retreat of 12 (writing disciples?) in the countryside with an erratic tutor, wine involved, box on the hill, words being thrown to us like Dylan’s cards here become magical shape-shifting semantics, through the eyes of the defiant narrator, as they write little creative essays to become one whole in my mind, essays, literally, of itemised animals (one a mandrill), each potentially ‘were-’ if not weird like Kafka. Jugged hare et al. Still cohering as a whole even as I write this about it. Both a satire and a heartfelt prose-poetic truth. Eyes staring from Noah’s Ark? Alice’s hare followed into dreamland?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The hare would like to be bigger, it would like to be very big. Even though it is bigger than rabbits, it is still too small.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27895#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2023-12-18T12:57:34+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">December 18, 2023 at 12:57 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27899" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I previously reviewed the next story here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/black-static-66/#comment-14527" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/black-static-66/#comment-14527</a>, as follows…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">=======================================</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT PLACE by Giselle Leeb</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“, twisting and turning in the hot, tight sleeping bag,…”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A remarkable vision of a nostalgia of a nostalgia, where a cyborg-human revisits the bland civilised mœurs of a 2018 country holiday campsite with ping pong table, neat borders and convenient conveniences, a place where we ‘pure humans’ once played at living. I dare not even adumbrate where this singular tourist’s journey with a ticket for such an experience takes you, for fear you will recognise your own future for what it once was, as you adjust your detachable eye (or “I”?) to look better through Sheil’s earlier crack or hole in the wall at your next door neighbours for real. Everybody knows that place. As you follow.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27899#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 22px;"></a></div></article></div></li><li class="comment byuser comment-author-nullimmortalis bypostauthor odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1" id="li-comment-27901" style="border: 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2023-12-18T13:56:01+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">December 18, 2023 at 1:56 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27901" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">AS YOU FOLLOW</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“past the silent dome of St Paul’s”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">As the only way to convey this story other than by your reading it, I shall say it seems to be an apotheosis of an apotheosis of sociable drinking excitement in what turns out not to be a noisily heaving German beer cellar on Halloween night but a similar venue near the Thames where a boy-man once called, I infer, John Bello, as a cherub upon the stone cathedral straddling the river itself, until . . . I shake off such a wayward daydream and finish this unbelievably wild story as an oxymoron of poignant sparkling as it unfolds the rest of itself that I follow without further diversion nor knowledge eventually of its later latent spoiler.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27901#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It was all mere moments in time.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">As you follow, this is sort of tied in with the imputed drowning of woman in tandem with boy-man in previous story above, here the boy-man lives on in his own numinous state remembering their longings in the city now playing out on their sheep farm with hidden inland sea, under highly poetic African skies and amid African fairy rings with memories of her slow, Zeno’s Paradox moribund dying till imperceptibly gone in the death, if not passion, of the reading moment. I can hardly breathe, let alone make sufficient record of what I have just seemed to read.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“He imagines a hand pecked through with red.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27904#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Most feel fatter after the fattening season just gone for which I set aside, by happenstance, an interval, only now to be thawed out by reversed cryogenics as a refrain of NOT THIN if not NOTHINg, as THINks I the massive mammal reader now with a new self body-image fighting off the burden of Biblical and historic events, such as famine and war… a sense of an Evenson warren of cells somehow eventually leading, cell by cell, to a LEEBerty of self?</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27946#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-02T10:53:22+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2, 2024 at 10:53 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27954" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">My ageing brain has just twigged that I first reviewed AS YOU FOLLOW in February 2018, here: <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/best-british-short-stories-2017/" rel="ugc" style="border: 0px; color: #497885; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/best-british-short-stories-2017/</a>, in its then context, as follows….</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">=======================================</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">As You Follow<br />GISELLE LEEB</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“as a group of men stand and they are going drink, drink, drink,”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“And him, him, him, he points.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This, for me, is an amazing dark but somehow equally undark piece of work. A coruscant vision of a theme bar in London where Mario Lanza songs becomes German. Lederhosen and beer steins. Men drinking. Bouncers. And one elfish boy. I imagine him sometimes like one of the impish birds in the previous story and the narrator watching him a twitcher or a rubber-necker in the first story. I can later imagine the drink sparklers transferring to the body of water…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“, past the silent dome of St Paul’s, down to the river, to the mighty Thames.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27954#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-02T11:23:58+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 2, 2024 at 11:23 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27955" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">SCAFFOLDING</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A story from the edges inward, a brush with Scurvy as eventually recurrent healing and breaking of skin wounds, something bone-deep or biography-deep, as doctor and patient work in a mutually subsuming synergy against the latter form of psychotherapeutic depth. Seems too thin for THIN as well as for someone urged to put a buffer of ever-refestering fat upon their bones? </p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">***</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Hey now, none of that. You know I don’t have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of them?”<br />— Becca Fitzpatrick</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27955#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-03T09:54:02+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 3, 2024 at 9:54 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27963" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I Probably Am a Lonely One </b><br />(inspired by Nighthawks by Edward Hopper)</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Let’s be lonely together –“</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is an amazing lightning ball of a story in my life stemming from an extrapolation of the thoughts of the people in the famous Hopper. As if reconstituted by a new hopper machine not for refuse but for acceptance. (My daughter and I have been collaborating on various stories in recent months – a still ongoing process and as yet unpublished – one completed story being entitled CHIAROSCURO and featuring a feel for Hopper paintings.)</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27963#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-04T12:14:24+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 4, 2024 at 12:14 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27968" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Wolphinia</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“– you never know what to expect from humans. […] What did the tiny government ever do for us?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">Just feed them fishy soo-nak, I say! Tiny enough for you? This is one whole crazeee fable-with-a-transamphibian-moral! — deploying MPs in a government bunker, mercury poisoning, kamikaze cars flying into the harbour, and, of course, the wondrous wolphins. It all makes a climactic sense as I drove off its end. I just felt sorry for the one who told me about it, although I gather it was a happy ending for her after I’d finished reading it. And hopefully for the globe itself. My legs have all gone stubby, though.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27968#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-05T12:02:20+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 5, 2024 at 12:02 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/27973" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><i style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A, and I</b></i></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“There should be a sliding scale of emoji stickers for glumness – ending in death.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is a tantalisingly puckish unofficial diary or real-time review with a spoilt-for-choice amount of mood-emojis provided for the subject’s official doctored diary, under a disarming Psych-tutelage, depicting a chatty battle nattered to us about the I-subjects’s emotional projection or repression, involving an AI robot and an archetypically loveable kitten, and viral I-tubing.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Are You Cold, Monkey?<br />Are You Cold?</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“There does not seem to be a connection.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">I was mesmerised and tantalised by the wire and cloth hung incantatory refrains of many things in plain spoken poetry, prose without enjambment, these things including dreams needing to be nice, a mother, a monkey learning words like ‘cold’ as it is today for the first time from the protagonistic little girl herself who lies in a puddle, plus a Prof and a God.<br />Still am.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; 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font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dividual</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Yes, I admit I was a prisoner. A minor crime against F—— b——, in case you’re asking.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is what I might once have called Covidual, rather than Dividual, but I see the point re this study in identity. What lockdown does and what it can reveal about your health especially when subject to examination under such ready-made solitary-confinement, with quack and not-so-quack medical remedies, cruelty-to-be-kind et al, mirrors and old-fashioned Wagon Wheels as a sort of reward psychotherapy, in search of the self versus the selfie. And we now all need to be doctors for ourselves! To remove the illusion from the genuine deduction achieved by randomness?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The two-storey-high, neon F—— b—— v103 logo lies on its side.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=27997#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-08T10:48:53+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 8, 2024 at 10:48 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28002" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Grow Your Gorilla</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I imagine plastic being spun into fur; I imagine forests that only the true and the brave can enter.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A story of a child and a ‘toy’ gorilla, only one of which that will grow into a full silverback among many such ‘toys’ given to other children as a sort of craze, and a sudden mass movement somehow broadly in tune with the timely inverse ‘tontine’ poignancy that the current Post Office scandal possesses on this very day I have read it. Indeed, this is one of those rare stories it is a privilege to read, and while the concertina of chances in your life that brought it to the attention of your reading eyes is inscrutable, you simply know you will remember it forever, having now read it. Another example is Flannery O’Connor’s utterly different story called ‘Enoch and the Gorilla’. But both stories depend on the reader’s kindness in synergy with them.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=28002#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-09T11:22:33+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 9, 2024 at 11:22 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28008" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">THE EDGES OF SEASONS</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“Whatever happened to instinct?”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is an intensely yearning story of someone in an adopted country, feeling unwelcome, and a myth of girl-swan and an iced over lake, leading, not leda-ing, to what I infer to be a black man’s poetic apotheosis of a stripped self with the swan’s self and a flight south, as finally triggered by elbows…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I push the bucket in front of me and use my elbows to propel myself forward.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“‘We are all the same inside,’…”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=28008#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); 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background-clip: padding-box; border-radius: 100px; border: 0px; cursor: default; float: left; font-size: 11.7px; height: auto; margin: 0px 15px 10px 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="40" /><cite class="fn" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url" href="http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc external nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.379999px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">nullimmortalis</a></cite> <a href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/#comment-28012" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 11.7px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-10T15:23:36+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 10, 2024 at 3:23 pm </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28012" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Pain Is a Liar</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The coterie is always telling him that he is full of side effects, that he is just one of the herd.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This is where the common herd is experimented upon for their immunity to pain, rather than to the plague, to lessen its effects on others known as the coterie, as was half-attempted once perhaps before or after this story was written. It is another haunting incantatory work that works through prose refrains, whether real or inferred refrains, but they never do actually refrain. Anton, one of the herd, is helped to be stoical by some others in suffering such applied pain to his body by hammer et al. Are these helpful others all part of some devious plan unaware that only the ‘coterie’ itself has ‘erotic’ embedded in its name as a primary impulse? Those giving pain lie, too, especially to themselves.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=28012#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: auto; border-radius: 30px; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); color: #497885; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0.5; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 22px 0px 0px; text-decoration: none; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><time datetime="2024-01-11T10:15:48+00:00" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">January 11, 2024 at 10:15 am </time></a><a class="comment-edit-link" href="https://wordpress.com/comment/dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/28021" style="border: 0px; color: #372e2e; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Edit</a></div></footer><div class="comment-content" style="border: 0px; clear: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">From ‘herd’ immunity to the coterie of shepherds…</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Death Is Over</b></p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The lift is slow and almost stops a couple of times. I say a little prayer to a god I don’t believe in and it keeps going.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">…and that seems to sum up this provocatively thoughtful and haunting story of a block of apartments as blocked by labelled debris below and the windows upstairs blocked by similar debris within, and some tenants sing as a choice of ‘Shepherds’ below outside in cloaks, whilst the Sapphic couple of which the narrator is one copes with the ‘myth’ of the falling man, as a redemption for us all, when in fact it is the other tenants falling deliberately? To your scattered bodies go? Or an ultimate faith in El Eb or in El Bowie himself?</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“I turn back to the window and rest my elbows on the sill, my head in my hands.<br />Just darkness out there.”</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=28021#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); 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-webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“It made no sense and it made some sense.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This effulgent story made complete sense to me. Not a Banksy, not even a cruel Damien Hirst, the giant fish on a crane hook over London casting rainbow trails for a particular woman was a miracle, not a coelacanth, but something blended from the supposed ‘falling man’ as Ichthys in the previous story above and, elsewhere, John Cowper Powys’ unforgettable question ‘IS IT A TENCH?’ as a Glistenberry Romance.</p></div><div class="reply" style="border: 0px; bottom: 8px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; right: 10px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="comment-reply-link" href="https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2023/12/02/mammals-i-think-we-are-called-giselle-leeb/?replytocom=28026#respond" style="-webkit-background-clip: padding-box; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: url("/wp-content/themes/premium/magnate-express/css/../images/ico-comment-reply.png"); background-origin: padding-box; background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; 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The quandary resides in the barleycorn and accident to a the man remembered by a pathologist who now depends on his husband’s approval and in the fact that all parts tend to reach out towards a destined whole, i.e. here in his morgue workplace that is, for me, far more positive than Frankenstein’s so-called workshop of filthy creation … in this Leeb story that means far more than it seems to otherwise mean.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">“The student rereads her concluding chapter for the tenth – eleventh? – time. The arguments are all there but somehow unconvincing, as if they add up to less than their parts.”</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">A quandary that is finally dispersed, as I hope I have now helped bring the whole together, by finding an already planted added-value in each and every part.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; hyphenate-character: "‐"; hyphens: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px; orphans: 3; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 3;">This story is fine substantive culmination to this book where a man’s pondered-about ‘sickie’ from work as a pathologist becomes a ‘sickle’ in the hand eventually enabling him to cross paths with the female student writing a thesis about climate change who stands often on what I would call her perceived Last Balcony, a place eventually becoming, in the end “balconies, spreading, connecting,…” A coda’s phrase that seems to help justify all I have found myself working towards in my writerly endeavours and a phrase, too, that is, in hindsight, retrospectively seeded throughout this whole highly visionary Leeb book, one that I have had the privilege and good luck (or preternatural instinct?) to be destined to choose to read and review.</p><p style="-webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 1; 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"Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">London is a big big city, with big big men,</strong></p><p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They sit in offices and count to ten.</strong></p><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Go for it, they said. Go for what? I asked.<br />You know, they said, you know full well.<br />I looked down at my papers as if I were being uncomfortably grilled by a Parliamentary Committee, fighting for my reputation as well as my livelihood.<br />The three men stared across at me, their faces reflected in the polished table. But who had polished it? My mind wandered, as was its wont. Concentration was ever my greatest weakness. I recalled the day I played toy post offices as a child, idly franking blotted postmarks. No swiping of cards in those ancient times. And today was no exception to my daydreaming.<br />I felt myself tugging out the sharp hankie that poked smartly from the top pocket of my suit, worn specially for this occasion. And, with it, I proceeded to erase a small mark on the otherwise perfect surface of the table before me. Maybe it was my own fault that the mark was there. Although I assumed that my papers were as clean as me. Not a blot even on the folded blotting-paper I kept in my back pocket. Not a stain even on my underwear, let alone on my character.<br />Go on, they urged wordlessly. Go on doing what? I silently replied.<br />The voices in my head were having their heyday. My being brought to book merged into the downward currents of God’s breath as the Devil simultaneously sucked in his cheeks. The last thing I heard was the gentle swish-swish of a bunny cloth being wiped across the lid closed above me.<br />No point in timesing anything to the nth power of pity,<br />No loose change for your pockets in countryside or city.<br />Comeuppance isn’t comeuppance at all, such a shame,<br />Not even thruppence for your prayers, nor tuppence for your fame.</strong>Nemonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13308850492930940749noreply@blogger.com0