As a lover of both writing and drawing, I am fascinated with horror as a great vehicle, particularly of the disfigured, for both of my loves. As a beginner of the genre, I suppose that the horror genre has subtypes, the attributes of each can combine with those of the others. Poe’s “The Murders in … Continue reading Faces of Horror: Horror in 1800’s — Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)
Month: May 2020
Love as a Demon: Some Long-Winded Thoughts
The novella by the great Colombian writer, which makes the offensive suggestion in its title, I find, among other things, as a feature on the problem of determinism. It illustrates, more than anything, how determinism is itself man-made, enforced, and as in the case of what happens to the protagonists Sierva and Cayetano, inflicted. There … Continue reading Love as a Demon: Some Long-Winded Thoughts
An Interesting Relief in the Time of Crisis: The Phantom of the Opera and Hamlet
On the second week of April—the middle of the quarantine period—came the free streaming on YouTube of the theater plays The Phantom of the Opera and Hamlet. A short reflection on these plays may be a curt and interesting relief in the current crisis. Nothing could be more dissimilar as a pair than this pair—at … Continue reading An Interesting Relief in the Time of Crisis: The Phantom of the Opera and Hamlet
Murmurings and Mimicries 