November 2015 – EsoterX

Month: November 2015

7 Posts

The Pied Piper of Transylvania: Tripping Over Fairy Tales

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

The Pied Piper of Transylvania: Tripping Over Fairy Tales

November 13, 2015 — 9 Comments

A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Way Too Far Away

Anthropology, History, Technology

A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Way Too Far Away

November 10, 2015 — 10 Comments

The Berkeley Mystery Walls: Scaling Impossibility

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, Mythology, Technology

The Berkeley Mystery Walls: Scaling Impossibility

November 8, 2015 — 8 Comments

The Angry Spirit of Castle Slawensik: An Open Letter to Poltergeists

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult, Philosophy

The Angry Spirit of Castle Slawensik: An Open Letter to Poltergeists

November 6, 2015 — 6 Comments

Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult

Love Song from the Grave: Balthazzarini, Henry III, and N.G. Bach

November 4, 2015 — 6 Comments

Something is Awry in Scythia: Ancient Defensive Earthworks in Kazakhstan

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Technology

Something is Awry in Scythia: Ancient Defensive Earthworks in Kazakhstan

November 3, 2015 — 4 Comments

The Digital Crowd: Making a Modern Monster?

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

The Digital Crowd: Making a Modern Monster?

November 2, 2015 — 2 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist