( via / martin wall @ night cafe)

Creatures of the Cambrian period.

“Lovecraftians are like a hereditary priesthood where the lore is passed and iterated upon from initiate to initiate. From Derleth to Houellebecq through Borges, theirs may be the greatest longitudinal collection of fanfic in modern (literary) literature—and it started as pulp.

Note: I consider Borges as a most uncomfortable —but ultimately additive— Lovecraftian; a longheld impression that I honoured with a comic tribute to There Are More Things in my first book. TAMT is a distinct outlier in the Borgian corpus; a reluctantly accepted glitch.

So when I say “through” Borges, there is his implied antipathy and resistance, too. Over the years I have come to think of TAMT as an outstanding case of literary sublimation. It does not sit well in The Book of Sand, but there it is: a trace of blood in a sea of ichor.”

—@lapsuslima (3 tweets)

You Too, Not Just Me.

"Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944

Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons and imagination all steadily increase;
the road whinnies and bucks, neighing; the maned sky gallops;
and you are eternally with me, love, constant amid all the chaos,
glowing within my conscience — incandescent, intense.
Somewhere within me, dear, you abide forever —
still, motionless, mute, like an angel stunned to silence by death
or a beetle hiding in the heart of a rotting tree."

—translated by Michael R. Burch

Ever.