The Voice before the Void: Arcana, Story, Poetry

Xmas: Ancient origins for modern corruptions. -The Voice before the Void “Yule-Horror” H.P. Lovecraft

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Bennett makes his case for reading for the improvement of living. So much ever unread. -The Voice before the Void “Serious Reading” from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day Arnold Bennett Works and writers mentioned in the text: Charles Dickens Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Paradise Lost by John Milton “On Poetry in General” from Lectures on the English Poets by William Hazlitt George Eliot Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Anne Brontë Jane Austen Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon First Principles by Herbert Spencer John Keats Works and writers mentioned in the discussion: “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Virginia Woolf Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning E.E. Cummings W.H. Auden A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway Ezra Pound Gertrude Stein Stephen Crane

Armistice Day: in commemoration of World War I and of all wars: “To propagate war is to propagate evil; there’s no other perspective that’s morally sound.” “So are we not even to defend our lives? Are we to just let ourselves be killed?” “Isn’t that what Jesus did?” -The Voice before the Void “The Watch-tower” from Tales of Wonder Lord Dunsany   “Preface” from Tales of Wonder Lord Dunsany

Armistice Day: in commemoration of World War I and of all wars: No greater waste than war; no greater poet than Owen. “Exposure” Wilfred Owen

Armistice Day: in commemoration of World War I, the U.S. War in Afghanistan, and all wars “Filisters Administered” The Voice before the Void

Armistice Day: in commemoration of World War I and of all wars: Soldier’s poetry of the First World War. “The Patrol” James H. Knight-Adkin

Armistice Day: in commemoration of World War I and of all wars: First World War poetry by Hemingway. “Champs d’Honneur” Ernest Hemingway

Armistice Day: in commemoration of World War I and of all wars: War poetry from the trenches. “The Messages” Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

“The Crawling Chaos” H.P. Lovecraft and Winifred Virginia Jackson

Happy Halloween! From traditional lore, the origin of the jack-o’-lantern. -The Voice before the Void “Stingy Jack” Wikipedia

Halloween: A perfect tale of shapeshifter lore. -The Voice before the Void “The Were-Tiger” from In Court and Kampong: Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Hugh Clifford

Halloween: A powerful parable, but creepy, creepy. -The Voice before the Void “The Three Hermits: An Old Legend Current in the Volga District” Leo Tolstoy translated from the Russian by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude

Halloween: An autumnal story of relayed insanity. “It’s a Halloween story!” -The Voice before the Void “The Gallows Ghost” Antonio Francesco Grazzini translated from the Italian by Thomas Roscoe

In a trailer in a summer storm on the North Dakota plain. Explicit. -The Voice before the Void Jawing about Roberto Bolaño works referred to, by Roberto Bolaño: Nazi Literature in the Americas (La literatura Nazi en América) By Night in Chile (Nocturno de Chile) 2666