An amateur historian, would-be podcaster and fan of old pulp and weird fiction. I am trying my hand at reading and recording works by Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith and other pulp writers, as well as surrealist and humorists such as Frank Key.
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“The vicarage is bad indeed, as bad as any vicarage in Christendom. But the vicar whose sinecure it is is, shall we say, a fair to middling vicar. I would not call him good, but he is by no means as bad as the Bad Vicar of old.”
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Born of Man and Woman is not a pleasant story, as it depicts a child born a hideous monster in our eyes, kept chained in the cellar by his parents, where he is beaten and abused regularly. It is, however, a memorable one, written by one of my favorite writers in the short story form, Richard Matheson, who is perhaps more famous for his television work on the Twilight Zone and other famous shows. This is a story I read as a younger teenager— probably 13 or so, and I recall it being in one of those Science Fiction Hall of Fame anthologies edited by Robert Silverberg. It's one of those stories that sticks with you.. Matheson paints a vivid picture of the unnamed child's suffering by having him recount events in a broken journal form. At the end of the story, you have to ask yourself who the real monsters are.
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This is a very short story by Richard Matheson, a famous television writer and master of the short story form. Written as a parable about nuclear war (in 1953), it was not received well, and in some jurisdictions people actually wanted it banned. I rather like the darkly ironic tone and imagery of this short-short piece. I have always read it very differently from the author's intent, and took the allegory as representing the madness of popular culture. Go figure!
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Poem by Charles Bukowski, from LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL collection, hosted on Third Point of Singularity http://misternizz.wordpress.com and http://misternizz.podbean.com
poem by Charles Bukowski from LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL collection. Hosted on Third Point of Singularity http://misternizz.wordpress.com and http://misternizz.podbean.com
Poem by Charles Bukowski from LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL collection. Hosted on Third Point of Singularity, http://misternizz.wordpress.com, and http://misternizz.podbean.com
Poem by Charles Bukowski, from LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL collection, hosted on Third Point of Singularity http://misternizz.wordpress.com and misternizz.podbean.com
Poem by Charles Bukowski from LOVE IS A DOG FROM HELL collection. Hosted on Third Point of Singularity http://misternizz.wordpress.com and misternizz.podbean.com
Poem by Charles Bukowski, from Love is a Dog from Hell Hosted on Third Point of Singularity http://misternizz.wordpress.com and misternizz.podbean.com
Sincerity by itself and audacity by itself are not necessarily impressive qualities in art. It's possible to recognize that a work is heartfelt without admiring it, and it's possible to recognize the bold churning of imagination without feeling much emotion because of it.
Together, though, sincerity and audacity can be immensely powerful, as in the best-known passage of Christopher Smart's "Jubilate Agno," the lines in which Smart (1722-71) considers his cat, Jeoffry. "Jubilate Agno" was written while Smart was confined in what the 18th century called a "madhouse," and the poem exists in separate fragments. It tends to be the Jeoffry passage of Smart's longer litany (worth reading in full) that finds its way into anthologies—and understandably. The brio and oddball, manic seriousness of the Jeoffry aria are unforgettable.
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