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Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.156
| Posted on Monday, September 24, 2012 - 05:17 pm: | |
In my current re-reading — first read by me in the 1970s — of ‘The Glastonbury Romance’ (1933) by John Cowper Powys, I think I have discovered a genuinely scary and substantial ghost story within the chapter entitled ‘Mark’s Court’. Mr Geard is made a bet to sleep in a haunted room where nobody previously could sleep…. A discrete classic. Here’s a quote from it: “But he clenched his hands together stubbornly, and stared at the red fire, resolute, in his massive way to beat down this fear, to beat it down and hold it down, so that it should not grow into panic; so that it should not get into his legs. So far it was only in his heart and in his throat. But he could feel it descending. It ran down a funnel . . . the fear-funnel it was that it ran down . . . inside his ribs . . . no, between his spine and his stomach.” PS: For any interested, here are all my quotes so far from this book: http://weirdtongue.wordpress.com/quotations-from-the-glastonbury-romance-by-john -cowper-powys/ |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.140.213.156
| Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2012 - 07:02 pm: | |
THOUGHT-EIDOLA Further to my earlier post above, here is another ghost story related post relating to 'The Glastonbury Romance' (1933) by John Cowper Powys, i.e. a quoted passage from it: "Human thoughts, those mysterious projections from the creative nuclei of living organisms, have a way of radiating from the brain that gives them birth. Such emanations, composed of ethereal vibrations, take invisible shapes and forms as they float forth. Thus to any supermaterial eye, endowed with psychic perception, the atmosphere of Mrs. Legge's front parlour that night must have been a strange scene. The secret thoughts of her guests rose and floated, hovered and wavered, formed and reformed, under those glittering candelabra, making as it were a second party, a gathering of thought-shapes, that would remain when all these people had left the room. All thought-eidola are not of the same consistency or of the same endurance. It is the amount of life-energy thrown into them that makes the difference. Some are barely out of the body before they fade away. Others -- and this is the cause of many ghostly phenomena -- survive long after the organisms that projected them is (sic) buried in the earth." Earlier such quotes shown here: http://weirdtongue.wordpress.com/quotations-from-the-glastonbury-romance-by-john\ -cowper-powys/ |
Des (Des) Username: Des
Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.129.35.144
| Posted on Monday, October 20, 2014 - 02:51 pm: | |
I have now read aloud THE FEAR FUNNEL as linked from here: http://nullimmortalis.wordpress.com/dfl-readings-aloud/ |
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