Lovecraft and Ligotti

[LeitnainParticipant 32]

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”
– H.P. Lovecraft, the Call of Cthulhu

“I first learned the facts from a lunatic, In a dark and quiet room that smelled of stale time and space. There are no people, Nothing at all like that… The human phenomenon is but the sum of densely coiled layers of illusion, Each of which winds itself upon the supreme insanity… But there are persons of any kind, When all that can be is mindless mirrors… Laughing and screaming as they parade about In an endless dream… But when I asked the lunatic what it was, It swore itself within these mirrors. As they marched endlessly in stale time and space He only looked and smiled, Then he laughed and screamed. And in his black and empty eyes I saw for a moment as in a mirror: A form the shade of divinity, In flight from it’s stale infinity. Of time and space and the worst of all, Of this world’s dreams. My special plan for the laughter And the screams…”
Thomas Ligotti – I Have A Special Plan For This World

"Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end." - Aleister Crowley, Hymn to Lucifer

[TattooDaveParticipant 6952]

Those are great quotes I suppose depending on your point of view. I have one question what say you?

I can see their heads have been twisted and fed with worthless foam from the mouth. Bob d

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

I’m more of a Bukowski fan. A mean old f~~~er who drinks too much is someone I can relate to. His writing has context. I can’t figure out how those two blurbs you posted relate to anything I have experienced. Random musings.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

The Lovecraft I can understand but Ligotti? His work is largely derivative and not very imaginative…and the guy is a flaming socialist/elitist type who needs to move out of South Florida and go to Cuba—ie socialist heaven.

[LeitnainParticipant 32]

TattooDave wrote:

Those are great quotes I suppose depending on your point of view. I have one question what say you?

I think that if you’re ever going to actually get anything accomplished for yourself that is worth its merit to you in life that you first have to abandon the preconceived notions and directions of the social structure around you and consider the likelihood that you were probably very sincerely lied and cheated in your life by the s~~~f~~~ dumbasses around you who were also lied and cheated in their life by the s~~~f~~~ dumbasses around them and so on. I think that, it’s more important to define yourself on your own terms and reasons than it is to try to try to appease the perceptions of others. And so MGTOW to me is a larger picture and less limited to a modern formality.

FrostByte wrote:

I’m more of a Bukowski fan. A mean old f~~~er who drinks too much is someone I can relate to. His writing has context. I can’t figure out how those two blurbs you posted relate to anything I have experienced. Random musings.

Bukowski is also awesome. Who also said something along the lines of “Find what you love and let it kill you.” I happen to love whiskey and madness. And so I’m spending my time in the pleasantries of alcoholism and crazy land.

PistolPete wrote:

The Lovecraft I can understand but Ligotti? His work is largely derivative and not very imaginative…and the guy is a flaming socialist/elitist type who needs to move out of South Florida and go to Cuba—ie socialist heaven.

To each their own. I’m not a political person, but I am an individualistic person.

"Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end." - Aleister Crowley, Hymn to Lucifer

[PistolPeteParticipant 27143]

Its cool…no worries everyone has different tastes. Didn’t mean that to sound like a cut.

[LeitnainParticipant 32]

Nah you good bro. Haha.

"Life hath no spring, no axle, and no end." - Aleister Crowley, Hymn to Lucifer

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