the big name nightmare fuel of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est,"
Ha -- I recited this at a school assembly in -- 10th? -- grade. I still have fragments by heart.
that image of unrescuable terror, because it describes someone dying and knowing it
Yeah
Many things don't automatically frighten me, but that moment of contemplation, fff k k k.
It's why the only Fear from The Magnus Archives that really gets to me is the Buried.
Oh god, that reminds me -- it's a short story, not a poem -- about a construction project disaster.
It must have been written as some sort of warning, though it was just sitting there near the front of some anthology I read sometime, waiting to scar me for life. It's a series of POV experiences of horrible death via poor safety standards.
Some sort of OSHA-funded anthology? something about labour? I can't remember now.
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Date: 2023-09-25 11:09 pm (UTC)Ha -- I recited this at a school assembly in -- 10th? -- grade. I still have fragments by heart.
Yeah
Many things don't automatically frighten me, but that moment of contemplation, fff k k k.
It's why the only Fear from The Magnus Archives that really gets to me is the Buried.
Oh god, that reminds me -- it's a short story, not a poem -- about a construction project disaster.
It must have been written as some sort of warning, though it was just sitting there near the front of some anthology I read sometime, waiting to scar me for life. It's a series of POV experiences of horrible death via poor safety standards.
Some sort of OSHA-funded anthology? something about labour? I can't remember now.