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The Witnesses Are Gone, Joel Lane
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Joel Lane

The Witnesses Are Gone

  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    As anyone who’s lived long enough will tell you, the human mind can only take so much reality before it shuts down. Ghosts are a form of censorship. We block out the night with ghosts, because the darkness is worse.
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    ‘No, I’m telling you. The thing that Juan Nada worships, the god of nothing. It killed my lover.’
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    When I thought about the house, I thought ruin was the natural order of things. Mostly I didn’t think about it. My grief was slow and cold and relentless.
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    Deep down, despite the evidence of our lives, we can’t really believe that anything is ever made up
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    Do you remember reading Lovecraft or Machen for the first time and believing, just for a moment, that what you were reading was not fiction? That some documents of another reality had fallen into your hands? That these stories not only changed their genre, they changed everything?
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    ‘I mean with the films. With Rien. Do I just forget it all?’

    Padgett gazed at me for a moment, his eyes blurred with reflected light. ‘Maybe,’ he said. ‘There are worse things than forgetting.’
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    He believes that all of Rien’s films are hints of an entity. A power, a god perhaps. Something mysterious and terrible, glimpsed only in distorted shadows. Negatives. Views of a black earth. And whatever it is, it doesn’t want to be seen
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    They usually claim he invoked some… sort of god that’s trying to cover its tracks
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    They made me feel the house was not a place for people to live in. If I shared the dark and chill of their territory, I couldn’t really be human
  • irene ⛅compartió una citahace 4 meses
    Films should liberate the imagination, not choke it with misery
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