The Vormance chapters in AtD.

[Mark Kohut]

It does and a nice thematic link within the oeuvre.

But what keeps hitting me re these chapters is iceheartedness symbolically
elaborated and the Trespassers
and what they come back from.

Which could be a world turned Snow Piercer (entropy redo) apocalyptic, of
course.

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 4:51 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Entropy gets very cold.
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:41 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "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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