who are the men?Leonora Carrington, Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, the men...
ive read a couple of dh lawrence novels but sadly cant remember a thing about either of them. ive got a feeling there was at least one tactirun northerner in one of them. an thats it. i like his beard though.
Leonora Carrington features as a character in one of the Ballard short stories in War Fever if I remember correctly. Well, one of the characters has that name at least. I've never read her stuff but I like her paintings. What would you recommend?"There's a sort of pulp/high culture crossover going on throughout British literary history, and I probably only say that cause I'm not in a position to know whether Polish or Spanish lit have a similar balance. Prose is a bastard form anyway, so the markers between proper and silly are arbitrary, even though the naffness or condescension can be real enough. I just know that many of my favourite British writers combine the pair: Leonora Carrington, Angela Carter, Anna Kavan, the men..."
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Yeah, it's got about 40 pages of wonderful, lyrical writing and 100 that read like a filibuster. He suits shorter tales really; he's all about piercing images, sudden horrors and enchantments. The weird thing with Machen tales is, you know something special and unique happened, but when you try to tell people about it you have trouble identifying what it was. (Which makes rue the day I said I'd write a piece on him!)I loved The Great God Pan and The Hill Of Dreams. Machen's a consummate prose lyricist. TGGP is proper fin-de-siecle aestheticist-decadence horror while THOD has some of the most beautiful prose I've probably ever read. That said, the main character is a sensitive-suffering-aesthete-cast-adrift-in-a-world-of-uncouth-philistines to the point of being an insufferable emo...
Leonora Carrington features as a character in one of the Ballard short stories in War Fever if I remember correctly. Well, one of the characters has that name at least. I've never read her stuff but I like her paintings. What would you recommend?
after the railing pkd got on here I started Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. prefer Blade Runner.
OK, I'm on it, had a quick google and it sounds great. Cheers."Hearing Trumpet. Unreservedly. Funny as fuck and wildly imaginitive"
machens fantastic. better than lovecraft but not nearly as camp so not as famous. i do like the campness of lovecraft.
Currently reading Childhood, Boyhood and Youth by Tolstoy.