@0x49fa98 in reading Lovecraft, I’ve noticed that one of his go-to tropes is ‘It was so horrible I can’t even describe it.’
Is it genius or an easy cop-out? I actually can’t decide.
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @philosoraptor21
It’s absolutely necessary. The unknown is far more terrifying than the known. It’s not that he couldn’t come up with a horrible thing, it’s that not knowing /is/ a horrible thing, one of the worst.
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Odgovor korisniku/ci @0x49fa98
+ the idea of "horror indescribable" is a strict literary innovation and encapsulation of a real (and paradoxically, a describable) phenomenon. E.g., trying to communicate object permanence to an infant. Merely to understand the concept requires a transformation of the child
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Are not a lot of his creations exist in an above the third dimension space? This makes proper descriptions paradoxical, it's also the same reason why most of Lovecraft-inspired paintings and musical pieces fall short of being good enough, you can only show fragments, never whole
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Odgovor korisnicima @LandsharkRides @0x49fa98
Higher dimensions are another literary device LC employs to access transcendence (See other post). You are correct that, strictly speaking, it is impossible to completely portray something like that in an image (although conceivably a video could show high-D objects in motion).
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The Tao that is seen etc. “Seeing this thing will take away your sanity and mark you for the rest of your life” >paints it >doesn’t go mad Shadows on the wall of a cave, mu friend
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Odgovor korisnicima @0x49fa98 @LandsharkRides
An example of an equivalent to a sanity-destroying event would be a video that changed your mind forever on some topic. "You mean I can't just get by in this world by being nice to the bad people? They'll still hurt me?"
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Odgovor korisnicima @lovecryption @0xa59a2d i sljedećem broju korisnika:
imo it's a copout, borges for example did "at the mountains of madness" betterpic.twitter.com/dI9jHI0LHi
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But LC did it first.
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