Excerpt from "The Land Across"

Daniel Otto Jack Petersen · 22 Oct 2013, 19:47 · from 2013-October.txt.gz

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From: danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com (Daniel Otto Jack Petersen)
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:47:17 +0100
Subject: (urth) Excerpt from "The Land Across"
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*I like the idea of the "Horror of the Holy".  It reminds me of how often
in the Old Testament God is described as "terrible" and "awful", and how
something as otherworldly as an angel couldn't appear as anything other
than terrifying to a mortal.*

Yes, exactly.


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Antonin Scriabin
<kierkegaurdian at gmail.com>wrote:

> Cool, I'll check out the Nightmare blog.  I like the idea of the "Horror
> of the Holy".  It reminds me of how often in the Old Testament God is
> described as "terrible" and "awful", and how something as otherworldly as
> an angel couldn't appear as anything other than terrifying to a mortal.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <
> danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I need to get back to them, Antonin!  Glad you enjoyed them.
>>
>> Busy doing '30 Days of Halloween' on my Ride the Nightmare blog right
>> now.  Haven't posted on Wolfe yet for this series, but some here may find
>> the following of tangential interest to Gene Wolfe:
>>
>> Day 15: Stalking Hnakra (monsters in C. S. Lewis)<http://ridethenightmare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/30-days-of-halloween-day-15-stalking.html> (It'd
>> be fascinating to compare Lewis's treatment of monsters with Wolfe's)
>>
>> Also the posts on Seraphim<http://ridethenightmare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/30-days-of-halloween-day-17-seraphim.html>
>>  and Cherubim<http://ridethenightmare.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/30-days-of-halloween-day-18-cherubim.html> kind
>> of relate to Wolfe's portrayal of the holy monstrous (and I can think of at
>> least one short story where he references a Cherub rather explicitly -
>> 'Slow Children at Play' in *Innocents Aboard*).
>>
>> -DOJP
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Antonin Scriabin <
>> kierkegaurdian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ?You see how nice to you we are. You do not like the food, you say it is
>>> rotten, you will go. He give better so you stay. Other things, too.?
>>>
>>> I said nothing. I was watching a girl who had peeked around the corner.
>>>
>>>
>>> Such creepy, minimalist writing.  I love it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Also, Daniel, I miss your Lafferty and Wolfe blogs!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Daniel Otto Jack Petersen <
>>> danielottojackpetersen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow.  Feels a bit like Swift meets Kafka.  (With, interestingly, a hint
>>>> of China Mieville thrown in.)
>>>>
>>>> Very disorienting and weird.  The dudes with lanterns felt almost
>>>> numinous.
>>>>
>>>> Seems the narrator has shifted into a parallel world?  (Feels resonant
>>>> yet very different from There Are Doors.)
>>>>
>>>> -DOJP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Fred Kiesche <
>>>> godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>  A bit of the forthcoming book has been posted to the Tor Dot Com
>>>>> site.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/10/the-land-across-excerpt-gene-wolfe
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> F.P. Kiesche III  "Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book.
>>>>> Always, scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on
>>>>> being presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
>>>>> Blogging at The Lensman's Children (
>>>>> http://theeternalgoldenbraid.blogspot.com/).
>>>>>
>>>>>
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