Category: cosmic horror
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MUSICA UNIVERSALIS
Welcome once again to the inner ramblings of my fractured, meandering mind. I am currently having some further musical thoughts, specifically regarding universal music this time around. Also known as ‘Music of the Spheres’ and ‘Harmony of the Spheres’, ‘Musica Universalis’ is a philosophy that postulates that mathematical aspects of the movements of celestial bodies…
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The Thermostat of Terror, or Climbing the Ladder of Dread
HP Lovecraft had a notorious, borderline pathological hatred of the cold. When the thermometer dipped in New England, the gentleman from Providence didn’t just bundle up—he practically withered away. He became physically sluggish, deeply miserable, and convinced that warmth was synonymous with comfort and life, while the frigid cold was the domain of absolute evil…
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Ten Memorable Tales
The power of good fiction is that it stays with you. It becomes part of you. Occupying a place in your memory that never lets you forget the impact the words made upon you. So for today on Threads that Bind, I thought I’d share 10 stories that have become part of me. Ten tales…
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The Nihilistic Void of Lovecraft’s Cosmicism:
Art, Indifference, and Ironic Immortality 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…
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Pi Day
As today is 3/14, it’s come to be recognized as International Pi Day. It also happens to be Albert Einstein’s 145th birthday. Both of these facts appeal to me because years ago, I obtained a degree in astrophysics from a small school in the desert Southwest called the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.…
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