@AlcopopStar the whole of the bell jar is failed quicktime events. smashing into her boyfriend on the ski slope. failing to drown herself. not saving the rosenbergs from electrocution. it's the literary equivalent of playing heavy rain without pressing the buttons
i don't know if people are ready for how intense and beautiful this new game by @xrafstarguts and @vichblen is gonna be. i was lucky to playtest an early build of it because i wrote an original song for the soundtrack. next level project, it's gonna mean a lot to so many people.
@LegoKingo and the reappearance of the text in D.'s subsequent books amounts to a haunting. i think HoL takes care to leave the possibility of never settling on a sole interpretation. mourning vs melancholia, if you like
@LegoKingo i guess the key word in my reply was satisfaction. the restoration of the Navidsons' marriage is troubling because it's neat. truant's initial account of events has escaped his grasp and is circulating in the world (e.g. the singer he encounters)—
@LegoKingo the darkness that seems to take form and finally claim holloway is the closest the book comes to saying, this monster exists, and ofc it's an incredibly vague and tenuous moment. but it leans on the possibility. you could say it puts its foundations on it, as though it were sand!
@LegoKingo yeah re. the minotaur, the book does all but say it isn't present (and its absence is a cause of dread for truant, who lacks a singular, easy, monstrous figure on which to pin his fear), but my reading's that dreadful absence reflects the absence of a definitive interpretive act
made an amazing find last night. James Tiptree Jr. once submitted a script for an episode of Star Trek, 'Meet Me at Infinity', but it was rejected. it seems she reworked it into a short story, which she published in this Trekkie fan magazine in 1972:
https://t.co/UM3TXee0B1
@basedgizmo the job centre has this atmosphere as soon as you step inside like the air you're breathing is antithetical to life itself. it's not part of this world.