Tag: Existential Dread
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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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Gore Revisited
Or, The Pale Blue Dot and Existential Dread Last month I posted why I don’t write gore. You can read it here. Four excellent comments were posted and I decided that rather than reply to each one individually, I’d reply to the thoughts that were expressed in a follow-up post. So here we go! It’s…