Negative Space

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This specific quote made me ache inside, "I dreamed about a supercomputer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn't there anymore, but I could still think and remember, and I wept and wept, wanting to be all the way gone."

Once, an eccentric physician by the name of Baumhauer lived and died in Kinsfield, New Hampshire. We’re told that the few people interested in the life and work of Baumhauer have been unable to verify very much. The only definitive information is contained in his surviving work, The Entropic Pantheon. In this work, he details his idiosyncratic ontology and metaphysics, going so far as to postulate that the human soul has a weight. To find out, he weighs himself on a scale, has an assistant record the measurement, and then hangs himself on the scale. The assistant then measured the difference in weight between the living Baumhauer and his corpse.I would love to work with someone who only really cares about the numbers and the candid aspects of things and then I just want to write all the flavor text. That’s one of the dreams there. There is no doubt that the writings of H. P. Lovecraft have enjoyed a significant renaissance of late. In both literary academia and mainstream culture, his idiosyncratic oeuvre has now been properly recognised for codifying and popularising a unique form of horror commonly known as ‘The Weird’. In an essay written by Lovecraft himself, aptly titled ‘Notes on Writing Weird Fiction’, he deftly outlines the specifics of this distinct sub-genre, explaining how his own particular brand of horror stories evoke a disturbing and fearful sense of the unknown by violently exposing his characters to an insidious alterity that exists beyond the bounds of human reason and perception.

Finished it just now. Processing as I type and processing all kinds of thoughts and feelings at once. B.R:I think you’re pretty close. Out of the three narrators, she has the most distance from Tyler and the phenomena he’s wrapped up in, so her perspective is the closest we have to an objective account (which still is still far from objective—every narrator is unreliable). I think the crucial part is that she, unlike Ahmir or Jill, isn’t chasing after Tyler’s affection, which provides her with a unique perspective, one that may be akin to a narrator or historian.B.R:Yeah, I definitely saw this and my previous book as being horror from the outset. Or I was at least purposefully trying to occupy that space. It’s a form that has always captured my imagination.

The desire has always been there, and I’ve always loved stories and wanted to create my own. Just like everyone else, when I was little I was writing bad stories and concepts for movies and video games. But I had no discipline—I wanted a quality end result without putting in the work. So I’d start things, get bored and abandon them. A big part of what helped was doing social work. I had done that for a while and was like, “Okay, this has a lot of great value to a lot of people.” It’s like that cliché thing of being around people that hold your beliefs who you respect and stuff. I guess I was a bit enclosed in my social circle before that. Then, I think I realized in terms of the sciences or in terms of rational thought, that I took for granted the idea of things being ‘settled.’ I realized things one assumes to be true for a long period of time aren’t definitively true. I am not defined by my body necessarily. I’m not defined by my physical space, which I’m only interpreting, that my body and my sense are interpreting the world. Those experiences are not the world. It’s merely an interpretation of it. Along similar lines of writing and design intersecting, Run Off Sugar Crystal Lakeby Logan Berry is really terrific too—this kind of psychedelic reenvisioning of Friday the 13th. Furthermore, during many of Lu’s narrations we read a forum along with her. The usernames of each participant appear in bold headings, just like Lu, Ahmir, and Jill’s names. At some points, clues lead the reader to believe that they know the identity behind a particular username, but anonymity reigns online. This particular forum is where pictures of recent suicides in Kinsfield are uploaded. So, we have an indefinite number of people gathered together in a ‘space’ that doesn’t physically exist but nonetheless exists. In this space they gather to wait for images to upload, to talk to one another, and to discuss what may be behind the spate of hangings. What results is further fragmentation of the storyline, offering us more paths to follow or holes to fall down as we try to understand what is going in Kinsfield and who any of the people involved really are.

And I loooooved the LGBT representation. LGBT characters exist, and aren't defined by their queerness. It's not even brought up. They're just allowed to exist, and it's wonderful.