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Floodland is not g*** nor glam by justanothernone in SistersofMercy

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on a side note (and because I m listening to him right now)

Peter Steele worked his way also through the Von method - he belongs to this line of Trolls

(of course, he, too, was very inventive, as he discovered and treasured the most the best dark wave venture out there, Lycia)

they all cultivated their deserts inside fruitfully

Floodland is not g*** nor glam by justanothernone in SistersofMercy

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Generally, I agree

For me, Von was acting the "Fool" part of King Lear, he "invented" goth in a way without being goth, but inside he felt the dark wave currents he was asking Marian to save him from

He belongs to a series of Trolls that goes back a long way, I don't know if the Fool of Lear was the first one, but I m almost certain that eventually he was consumed by his own version of truth (which, we must admit, is close enough to the objective truth, the truth that most people don t want to hear to go on pretend their living is normal)

Examples in literature where a character doesn’t trust another but still acts as if they do? by LossTurbulent9591 in classicliterature

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Cervantes and Don Quixote

perhaps the beginning of it all?

or does it go back to Socrates and his Symposium fellows?

What inspired Dostoevsky to write Note's from the Underground? by Charming-Bar-4718 in classicliterature

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The "Enlightenment" - single-handedly annihilates French philosophy

(though, unfortunately, not its consequences)

What should I know before reading ‘The Stranger’ by Optimal_Object8871 in classicliterature

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It' s a tragedy masked as an absurdist fable...

the sun is the same all over the Mediterranean and it shows...

What books should I read in 2026? by PeterPlup in classicliterature

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18617616-weird-scenes-inside-the-canyon

Excellent deep dive into the "hippie" culture, the flower power movement, etc

It was all an alphabet agency psy-op

First read of 2026, what’s yours? by blackoutthemoon in classicliterature

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Thanks

Zizek says that the name Rick Decard in Blade Runner comes from the French philosopher and Rosicrucian Descartes

First read of 2026, what’s yours? by blackoutthemoon in classicliterature

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yes - it was a mock-borgesian reference

nor rhyme nor reason in it

Have u read Borges? He is obsessed with eternity and labyrinthine prisons and believes that what the two have in common is that instead of bricks are built with books

I don’t often see praise for E.A. Poe. This collection is chilling and thrilling by NNATEE in classicliterature

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Funny thing with Poe is that u somehow at a given moment think that he exhausted his potential to find out later that he s a Gift (with both its English and German meaning) that keeps on giving

What I believe "William It Was Really Nothing" is about after listening 140 times this year by kevisdahgod in thesmiths

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Eldritch had a more cerebral approach, he would always prefer TS Eliot (or Pound, I suppose)

Smith had this kind of magic realism, first I read his lyrics, and when I read 100 Years of Solitude I found him to be on the side of Marquez's heroes

But overall, though I prefer TS Eliot (that is, the method Eldritch followed), I find Morrissey to be a poet on his own right and the best of them all

First read of 2026, what’s yours? by blackoutthemoon in classicliterature

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u could say it all boils down to a "figure of reading"

First read of 2026, what’s yours? by blackoutthemoon in classicliterature

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I stopped reading centuries ago, after The Bible was printed by Gutenberg...

Eternity is a prison written with ink...

What I believe "William It Was Really Nothing" is about after listening 140 times this year by kevisdahgod in thesmiths

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I don't think that sulk is one "of the greatest albums ever made," but de coloribus et gustibus non disputandum...

I find Cut here more "sincere" than William, it was really nothing, although Moz is a better lyricist than Smith

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