"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:
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
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