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Post by Knygathin on Sept 12, 2023 21:03:17 GMT
Thanks goathunter and helrunar. I'll check out "Guts" and Eat Them Alive.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 12, 2023 20:58:56 GMT
Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch (a member of some sort of religious secret society) had music printed on the arse of somebody depicted in the Garden of Earthly Delights and the music was transcribed and recorded in an arrangement: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnrICy3Bc2UIt's actually a rather sweet little ditty. Hel. Yes, a pleasant ditty. Bosch's triptych painting used to be available in a really nice reproduction (on stiff wooden board, with frame) in some art museums. I remember it hanging on our wall when I was a child. I don't know what happened to it, but it's gone now. There was also a splendid reproduction of Bruegel's Wedding Dance, which I still have.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 12, 2023 19:57:19 GMT
Not sure that it's the done thing to reference one's own stories, but I wrote one about unruly hairs ( Hairberg, published in Nightscript VIII last year). Can cut and paste it into a PM if of interest Yes, please, that sounds interesting.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 12, 2023 7:37:27 GMT
Horror stories about the rear end, the bowels, and faeces. Do you know of any? And stories about hair growing unruly?
The rear end, indeed, which God in his infinite mercy has turned our eyes away from. We are very prudish in our time. But in the Middle Ages they portrayed the rear end as a separate talking entity.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 10, 2023 11:26:51 GMT
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 10, 2023 7:25:24 GMT
I rewatched ALIENS (1986) for the first time since I saw it in the theater in the 80's. The movie which everyone seems to think is better than the original ALIEN (1979), which it is NOT. ALIENS has some impressive technical special effects, and is a good enough action film of forgettable entertainment, with the usual standard cheap thrills and macho rap war talk, to appeal to the brainless herd and lure them into buying tickets. But the rehash, sequence by sequence, camera angle by camera angle, movement by movement, sound effect by sound effect, music snippet by music snippet, when Ripley goes to find the girl in the exact same fashion and under the same exact circumstance as when she goes after the cat in the first film, is the low-water mark, a despicable example of commercially calculated safe betting replacing artistic creativity and integrity. James Cameron is a "funny" individual, a talented director, who bows to Mammon and has sold his soul for Hollywood shekels.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 9, 2023 23:45:46 GMT
I think Tarkovsky's Stalker is more evocative than Solaris. The fantastic elements in Solaris are drastically toned down from Stanislaw Lem's great novel. But I need to rewatch the movie, it is primarily made up of dialogue inbetween long shots of quiet lingering and I don't remember any of it.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 9, 2023 11:19:50 GMT
Does anybody have any experience with Aegypan press? I wonder about their printing of The Lost Valley and Other Stories. I understand it is a print-on-demand, but is the quality good, and is the text solid?
By the way, if you have not read The Centaur, I recommend it. It is sublime.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 9, 2023 9:43:31 GMT
"The Room in the Tower" must be Benson's most anthologized story. I think it is overrated. Perhaps I am missing the point, but a coffin full of blood is not my idea of good horror. He has written loads of better stories.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 8, 2023 7:30:51 GMT
But crammed 19th century font, with all its encumbering decor, may be even more unreadable. It is analogous to the way people of that time hid behind all layers of clothing.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 8, 2023 7:08:05 GMT
They are different - with the long lower case f the bar goes through the vertical line, with the long s the bar stops at the vertical line. Yes. Comparing 'f' and the 'long s' in the 1797 edition of The Monk, I see a slight difference if I really strain my eyes, and the upper curve of the 'long s' possibly being also somewhat more extended.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 8, 2023 1:17:32 GMT
Thank you - the usage of the long s was a mysterious practice. It might be fun to re-enact it, if not in writing then at least in reading, for old times sake, and to be transported back to ye olde days. I have seen it before, but never took the time and effort to unravel it. I never bothered to try to read those old musty books from my grandparents' shelves. Some of my old music records use it for heading, as a means of stirring up atmosphere. Before, it was uncomprehensible, now I can passably read it. Perhaps it might be a prosperous business scheme to reintroduce it into book publishing, as a novelty for a gullible audience hungering for the illusions of old - like myself.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 6, 2023 18:44:27 GMT
I was over at archive.org, looking at the 1797 edition of Matthew G. Lewis's The Monk. I figure, if I want to experience the right ghoulish atmosphere, I better read the original edition. But why did they, back then, use an 'f' to spell both s and f? Did they have a lisp? It makes reading difficult, slowes it down.
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 6, 2023 6:49:47 GMT
The Weird Tales versions can, however, be found in the British paperback reprints of the Arkham House collections. If I knew where I have them. Surely you must have a shelf reserved for the great Clark Ashton Smith?!
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 5, 2023 19:01:15 GMT
I once tried to order the following book from Impatient Press, but they seemed to have lost interest. It is printed in the same format as the old Ballantine Adult Fantasy books, but instead of the Unicorn's Head imprint it has a goat.
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