tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post4825419642356372645..comments2024-03-16T21:03:05.280+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: The Premature BurialGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-77849475341872065142012-02-15T00:31:40.390+13:002012-02-15T00:31:40.390+13:00"The authorial weight of the past and the ver..."The authorial weight of the past and the veracity of the written word has been reduced."<br /><br />For this, rather than relying on <i>The Golden Bough</i>, I usually go to <a href="http://neosentience.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/cybernetics-and-ghosts-by-italo-calvino/" rel="nofollow">Calvino</a>.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-24973624421143498042012-02-14T20:33:55.728+13:002012-02-14T20:33:55.728+13:00I don't have much to add, but I do wonder if w...I don't have much to add, but I do wonder if we've stepped past boundaries of credulity. The authorial weight of the past and the veracity of the written word has been reduced. <br /><br />It seems to me that the Bible was allowed to command absolute truth, and that this stood alongside similar belief in fictions. It's my experience that highly religious canonical readings of biblicalGeorge Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-80919964368819242822012-02-14T09:54:49.739+13:002012-02-14T09:54:49.739+13:00"-- Behold!"
I looked; and the unseen f..."-- Behold!"<br /><br />I looked; and the unseen figure, which still grasped me by the wrist, had caused to be thrown open the graves of all mankind, and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay, so that I could see into the innermost recesses, and there view the shrouded bodies in their sad and solemn slumbers with the worm. But alas! the real sleepers were fewer, by Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-26090754943165563162012-02-14T06:39:40.918+13:002012-02-14T06:39:40.918+13:00Excellent, but you're a bit unfair on Ray Mill...Excellent, but you're a bit unfair on Ray Milland. His speciality was playing hollow, nondescript characters driven by terrifying, crippling compulsions. <br /><br />But Poe - probably the first 'grown-up' writer to make an impression on me - has me thinking to this day of the many hundreds, thousands of people in previous centuries who went to their graves fully aware of what was David K Waynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10756535951359716522noreply@blogger.com