![]() ![]() And, I'll note, Dyson never saves anyone from a horrible fate in any of the stories with him. Indeed, Dyson seems to solve his mysteries almost exclusively through coincidences. >7 AndreasJ: Machen often has, especially in the Dyson stories, coincidences. However, Machen often has the same surnames in his stories, so it probably means nothing. I almost wonder if Davies is not the same Davies as one of the impostors in The Three Impostors. There seems to be an interesting untold story here. ![]() >9 elenchus: Yes, I'd like to know what Q was up and how he knew about Black's jewel. >6 paradoxosalpha: Yes, this strikes me as being much simplified version of the basic idea of "The Great God Pan". Various forms of evil and their motivations - greed, revenge, lust - I can understand. She will, after all, have her soul forcibly migrated. For me, Agnes self-sacrifice arises to pathological levels. Having worked my way through about two thirds of Machen's fiction, I consider this the only true horror story he wrote. I've been reading a lot of Machen lately and read this one for the first time just a few months ago. >5 Crypto-Willobie: surprised that this wondrous jewel could be destroyed simply by stomping on itĪnd yet, that is precisely what occurs when we stomp upon that jewel, the human body. David Tibet almost certainly is familiar with Machen, but still I wonder if there is not a common referent from which each borrows separately. which could account for the familiarity, being a band I know fairly well (though not these specific recordings). All I found was the title of an album cycle by the band, Current. ![]() I had thought the story title was borrowed from a phrase familiar from other sources, and tried to look it up & jar my memory. Is Paris a center of occult practices, that this Q would travel there, without the opal, presumably in hopes of making contacts there about the results of Dr Black's experiments? And who is this Davies, that Mr Travers mistakes Dyson to be when Dyson shows up to claim the package? And the humour throughout: the beginning, especially, seemed as though he were poking fun at himself through the character of Dyson, and the "great rewards" of literature.Īre we supposed to infer that Sam and his wife, from whom Dyson retrieves the scrap of paper with the "riddle" upon it, are in fact Dr Black's latter day landlords? I was a little surprised not to have Dyson confirm that, but also impressed that Machen doesn't feel the need to state it explicitly. But then the hint of layers (links to other stories of Machen's, for one) is another reason. The prose as noted in >5 Crypto-Willobie:, is reason enough, it's simply a pleasure to read the story. My first reading of this, which reinforced yet again that really - I must read more Machen. ![]()
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