Evangeline Gallagher's illustration stands on its own. And the video. Damn! Most of us have read some Poe. The "Cask of Amontiallado (sp?)" is my personal Poe center of gravity. A few us might have read The Masque of the Red Death. I have not. But it doesn't matter. The illustration floods the brain and lights up all the sympathetic nerve endings joined somewhere to that eerie place Poe prodded (interrogated - heh) in so much of his work. Freud's "uncanny." Here is a link to the story itself:
I pay for - I think - something like 15 substack subscriptions. I don't even think I pay for this one. (???) But not one is as artistically, creatively and aesthetically unique and special as this one. Such great work. I went and looked this up after reading this entry. For your enjoyment (from Paradise Lost):
Love the Folio Society. Keep asking for some of them for birthdays and Christmas but no one will buy me a $150 version of a book!
Evangeline Gallagher's illustration stands on its own. And the video. Damn! Most of us have read some Poe. The "Cask of Amontiallado (sp?)" is my personal Poe center of gravity. A few us might have read The Masque of the Red Death. I have not. But it doesn't matter. The illustration floods the brain and lights up all the sympathetic nerve endings joined somewhere to that eerie place Poe prodded (interrogated - heh) in so much of his work. Freud's "uncanny." Here is a link to the story itself:
https://poemuseum.org/the-masque-of-the-red-death/
I pay for - I think - something like 15 substack subscriptions. I don't even think I pay for this one. (???) But not one is as artistically, creatively and aesthetically unique and special as this one. Such great work. I went and looked this up after reading this entry. For your enjoyment (from Paradise Lost):
"The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."
Spiffy illio.
elm
i made a map of the building for an english class once