Oh, shit... That's what i forgot...
Jul. 19th, 2005 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7So, i'm reading The Children of Cthulhu, and in reading "The Stuff of Stars, Leaking," by Tim Lebbon, and i came upon this quote:
"He'd always been cautious of the dark. That's what he'd told people: cautious. Never really afraid, even when he was young. Cautious. Like he was around electricity or acid. He treated them with respect lest they hurt him, and he respected the dark equally.
"He thought it was the reaction most likely to be welcomed by whatever lived there."
I like that. A Lot.
This book is doing wonderful things, to my head, and my modes of operation. But it's mythos, and it is, at its deepest roots, Poe.
So far, the stories "Details," by China Miéville, "A Victorian Pot Dresser," by L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims, the previously mentioned "The Stuff of Stars, Leaking," and "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea," by Caitlín Kiernan are my favourites. Actually, i've thoroughly enjoyed every story i've read, thus far, either for the style of writing, the narative itself, the inspirational materials, or all of the above. Fucking gorgeous.
Mythos. Gotta love it.
"He'd always been cautious of the dark. That's what he'd told people: cautious. Never really afraid, even when he was young. Cautious. Like he was around electricity or acid. He treated them with respect lest they hurt him, and he respected the dark equally.
"He thought it was the reaction most likely to be welcomed by whatever lived there."
I like that. A Lot.
This book is doing wonderful things, to my head, and my modes of operation. But it's mythos, and it is, at its deepest roots, Poe.
So far, the stories "Details," by China Miéville, "A Victorian Pot Dresser," by L.H. Maynard and M.P.N. Sims, the previously mentioned "The Stuff of Stars, Leaking," and "Nor the Demons Down Under the Sea," by Caitlín Kiernan are my favourites. Actually, i've thoroughly enjoyed every story i've read, thus far, either for the style of writing, the narative itself, the inspirational materials, or all of the above. Fucking gorgeous.
Mythos. Gotta love it.
