The Vormance chapters in AtD.
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Thu Mar 7 03:41:01 CST 2019
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice"---Robert Frost....
Rereading AtD after rereading Bleeding Edge and ice as darkest metaphor for
us looms like an impending avalanche.
One of the surprises for me in reading Dante for the first time is that
there is ice in Hell...
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 7:52 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Arctic Vortex.So Romantic, prometheus 3.0, the special vormance edition
> swinging wildly through the northern hemisphere, taking lives, fueling the
> fire that is coming. Hearts frozen in terror, importing more ice to the
> center of the vast cultural indifference. What is horror as a genre but
> the subconscious screams emerging from the ever thickening detritus of
> denial.
>
>
> > On Mar 6, 2019, at 6:45 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The arctic North. the cold, the ice and
> > so much atmosphere. Is this where P
> > gives us another of his ambiguous perspective
> > on "original sin", on our 'human natures'?
> >
> > The objective correlative of our human badness? Jung's
> > collective unconscious writ Dantean? That city he writes
> > of.....
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