Saturday 3 November 2018

Dialogue With Evil

Check out Lockridge And Matuchek, then compare the experience of Julian May's Rogatien Remillard, "Uncle Rogi":

"Something else watched him from deep within a great mental chasm, a thing horrible that encompassed an evil beyond anything he had ever experienced before."
-Julian May, Jack The Bodiless (London, 1992), 2, p. 40.

Rogi's experience goes further. He converses with the evil - as Matuchek does in a later chapter - and thus learns that it calls itself "Fury." When Fury attempts to possess Rogi, another presence familiar to Rogi, the Family Ghost, protects him.

Lockridge experiences a horrific presence in infinite space;
Matuchek encounters the egotistic Solipsist in infinite emptiness;
Rogi converses with a horrible evil in a mental chasm.

Both authors know that these accounts will resonate with their readers.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

These encounters with ultimate, or nearly ultimate evil certainly resonates with me! And we get a glimpse of that in THE LORD OF THE RINGS when Pippin Took, foolishly tampering with a Palantir, briefly contacted the mind of the Dark Lord himself.

Sean