@@manifestdust I actually borrowed the idea of a man as a universe from the political theorist Norman Geras (it was in a blogpost about the death of Margaret Thatcher of all people).
Thank you, my friend. I always find this one moving af too whenever I read it. Reviewing the audio while editing, my reading even made me tear up in the passages near the close. More for the story's substance & attitude--I'm just content if I can deliver them while staying out of their way. (And no, that's not fishing for further compliment, just how I feel at the moment.)
@@manifestdust i can grok it bruh, it hard not to feel all emotional at tha conclusion when faber goes bananas & xtrapolates on all tha future outcomes of varying quality emanating from dons one fleeting moment of transcendent beauty
Interesting selection! To my shock, it occurs to me that I've never actually read his work before (at least, not anything in the short-fiction realm, which tends to be my wheel...)--I'll have to check out more of it. To kick off your welcome (and I assume deliberately, pointedly 'non-Ligottian'?) resumption of YT postings, I cannot help but notice that you have chosen a story with pretty much THEE most 'anti-Ligotti vibe' one could reasonably ask for--i.e., vibrant, 'contemporary', bristling & alive with basically-healthy human emotion & interaction; talk about a literary 'palate-cleanser'! :P
Yes, a non-Ligottian palate-cleanser indeed. And a kind of writer and writing I'm drawn to when not in horror mood. It didn't occur to me till I finished it, that this Faber is a kind of complement/bookend to the Sorrentino I did (The Moon in its Flight). Sorrentino wrestles with a cynical realist take on common life emotional experiences--giving in to brutal objectivity in the end--while Faber accepts the subjective, just cherishes what life can bring us bc we have to exprrience/endure it all anyway. I absolutely love both writers. As well as others I haven't yet approached that are different than these two.
What you’ve got here is the entire universe of a man’s being in a little over fifteen minutes of spoken prose.
It’s incredible.
You capture it the way I feel it, but couldn't say myself....
@@manifestdust I actually borrowed the idea of a man as a universe from the political theorist Norman Geras (it was in a blogpost about the death of Margaret Thatcher of all people).
moving af, thx manifest. big mono no aware vibes ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you, my friend. I always find this one moving af too whenever I read it. Reviewing the audio while editing, my reading even made me tear up in the passages near the close. More for the story's substance & attitude--I'm just content if I can deliver them while staying out of their way. (And no, that's not fishing for further compliment, just how I feel at the moment.)
@@manifestdust i can grok it bruh, it hard not to feel all emotional at tha conclusion when faber goes bananas & xtrapolates on all tha future outcomes of varying quality emanating from dons one fleeting moment of transcendent beauty
Interesting selection! To my shock, it occurs to me that I've never actually read his work before (at least, not anything in the short-fiction realm, which tends to be my wheel...)--I'll have to check out more of it. To kick off your welcome (and I assume deliberately, pointedly 'non-Ligottian'?) resumption of YT postings, I cannot help but notice that you have chosen a story with pretty much THEE most 'anti-Ligotti vibe' one could reasonably ask for--i.e., vibrant, 'contemporary', bristling & alive with basically-healthy human emotion & interaction; talk about a literary 'palate-cleanser'! :P
Yes, a non-Ligottian palate-cleanser indeed. And a kind of writer and writing I'm drawn to when not in horror mood. It didn't occur to me till I finished it, that this Faber is a kind of complement/bookend to the Sorrentino I did (The Moon in its Flight). Sorrentino wrestles with a cynical realist take on common life emotional experiences--giving in to brutal objectivity in the end--while Faber accepts the subjective, just cherishes what life can bring us bc we have to exprrience/endure it all anyway. I absolutely love both writers. As well as others I haven't yet approached that are different than these two.