Catastrophe
Cat math. Cath.
nintendo: ok david we’re gonna have you compose the music for our funny gorilla game. it’s about a monkey who’s mad because someone stole his bananas. you think you’re up for it?
david wise: sure. funny monkey game. got it.
david wise: [proceeds to compose some of the most beautiful music ever composed for video games, changing the way video game music is looked at by consumers and artists alike, even influencing koji goddamn kondo to copy david’s style]
Inside of this cold darkness I found that I felt warmth.
The warmth of a familiar force hanging over you.
It’s as if this depression was caring for me as a mother,
Infinitely bound to my existence while wishing that her presence meant anything more to me than pain.
This paradox brought on a powerful realization that it was not I seeking the negativity.
It was chained to me.
But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call from the senses gave her a look directly suggestive of all things linked to deep sexuality, such as blood, suffocation, sudden terror, crime; things indefinitely destroying human bliss and honesty.
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| — | Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye (via talesofpassingtime) |
He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud.
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| — | Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (via talesofpassingtime) |
The corpse, already greatly decayed and clotted with gore, stood erect before the eyes of the spectators. Upon its head, with red extended mouth and solitary eye of fire, sat the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman. I had walled the monster up within the tomb!
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| — | Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination (via talesofpassingtime) |
