Re: virus: Re: sex
Alex Williams (thantos@decatl.alf.dec.com)
Thu, 2 Jan 1997 09:54:53 -0500 (EST)
> No, not Goths-- contemporary gothic.
>
> subversion of rational order through the portrayal of Nature as an
> unknowable, threatening force-- an amoral, chaotic storm.
>
> Truth is subjective-- rationality is insanity-- science is magic--
>
> The truth is out there-- that kind of stuff.
>
> We are in the midst of a Victorain revival--
Oh, whew, I was becoming frenzied in my disturbance there for a bit.
Suddenly my research in Lovecraft seems applicable here, `the blind,
idiot god, Azathoth; the chaotic nuclear mass.'
The whole renaissance of the Victorian (how's that for mixed-image
metaphor?) is fascinating, but I think you ought to discriminate it
from `millineum fever' which we're also seeing as 2000 rolls ever
onward.