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Malpertuis
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bookshelves: weird-masters, new-dimensions, unstablenarratives, rain-man-reviews
Nov 24, 2024
bookshelves: weird-masters, new-dimensions, unstablenarratives, rain-man-reviews
LOOK AT ALL THE STORIES
into the monastery he went, and there he found some stories. from the island to the boat he came, and there he told some stories. into the great big haunted house he went, and there he lived some stories. to the monastery he went, fleeing all of those stories. and back to the house he went...
5 perspectives and counting! layers like a rotting onion; do I want to even peel these layers back? the smell is so pungent.
in this house is darkness and magic... the house is named Malpertuis. take note of the mal, French for wrong, or harm, or hurt, or bad - but this is just a family living together, an eccentric irascible uncontrollable extended family; but these are just prisoners trapped together, inmates; but this is just a collection of dreams and nightmares, gods and monsters, these people aren't real, nothing is real, except for all of the deaths - and take note of the pertuis, French for sluice, or lock chamber, or drain, or gate...
one two three women, a half-goddess a gorgon a fury. who should the boy fall in love with? how about all three!
you read this like it's a diary recounting a series of strange hallucinations. it must be metaphorical. surely it's not meant to make any sort of sense, to have any kind of logic, it just doesn't add up, it's all so surreal, what is supposed to be real, what is unreal, surely this can't be taken literally, people don't talk this way, people don't act this way.
true! people don't talk or act this way. but other things certainly do...
BAD GATE BAD GATE BAD GATE
into the monastery he went, and there he found some stories. from the island to the boat he came, and there he told some stories. into the great big haunted house he went, and there he lived some stories. to the monastery he went, fleeing all of those stories. and back to the house he went...
5 perspectives and counting! layers like a rotting onion; do I want to even peel these layers back? the smell is so pungent.
in this house is darkness and magic... the house is named Malpertuis. take note of the mal, French for wrong, or harm, or hurt, or bad - but this is just a family living together, an eccentric irascible uncontrollable extended family; but these are just prisoners trapped together, inmates; but this is just a collection of dreams and nightmares, gods and monsters, these people aren't real, nothing is real, except for all of the deaths - and take note of the pertuis, French for sluice, or lock chamber, or drain, or gate...
one two three women, a half-goddess a gorgon a fury. who should the boy fall in love with? how about all three!
you read this like it's a diary recounting a series of strange hallucinations. it must be metaphorical. surely it's not meant to make any sort of sense, to have any kind of logic, it just doesn't add up, it's all so surreal, what is supposed to be real, what is unreal, surely this can't be taken literally, people don't talk this way, people don't act this way.
true! people don't talk or act this way. but other things certainly do...
BAD GATE BAD GATE BAD GATE
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Reading Progress
November 21, 2024
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November 23, 2024
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November 24, 2024
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weird-masters
November 24, 2024
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new-dimensions
November 24, 2024
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Finished Reading
December 10, 2024
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unstablenarratives
December 10, 2024
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rain-man-reviews
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All that said, this not a field that usually gives a lot of free time! I think that free time is almost entirely due to the fact that I am (happily) a bachelor and have no kids. This was a choice I made many years ago because I am an insular person in general. Although I have many friends and a family that I love, my free time is almost entirely my own. I look at the lives of my friends and family (nearly all married + kids) and I see that they do not have much time left to themselves, after the obligations of work and their own families.
I spend my free time reading books or online sociopolitical articles, watching movies & tv, socializing, occasional volunteer work, occasional travel. I have a lot of time to enjoy a lot of books!