Oh, you’ve totally sold me now on Freud! Wanna get my hands on The Uncanny… I’m hoping to get around to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories this month, got the beautiful Penguin Orange Collection special edition of that one recently…
The first part of "The Uncanny" was a slog through etymology, but once he gets into the analysis of "The Sandman" by Hoffman, I got more into it. Those Penguin Orange editions look nice!
I have a false memory. I remember sitting on my great grandfather's lap and getting my picture taken. I know it's false because he died before I was born. The child in the photo is my father. That photograph sat on a desk next to a picture of me at about the same age and because I looked the same as my father at that age my juvenile mind associated the two and created a false memory
Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" was wonderful, one of the very best haunted house novels. Robert Wise's 1967 adaptation "The Haunting" was excellent, well worth a watch. The 1999 remake not so much. The Netflix adaptation "The Haunting of Hill House" was very good, to my mind, but it was not the book, if an interesting take - less ghostly gothic than it is creepy miniseries. Personally, I think Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" is far superior, however. It is so much more sinister. Consider watching the 1961 adaptation "The Innocents," with Deborah Kerr, if you haven't already. The Netflix miniseries "The Haunting of Bly Manor" is very good, too, far truer to James' novella than their "Hill House" was to Jackson's novel (I think Bly Manor is ranked the least of the Halloween miniseries Flannagan created for Netflix, but on rewatching them all last season, I think Bly Manor is the best of the lot, but I do prefer gothic horror to gore). My reading? Not much new to report at present. 2/3 through The Iliad, 1/2 through Frankenstein, will complete the A. Christie collection "Autumn Chills" this weekend, one lengthy essay to read of DFW's "Consider the Lobster." I have begun a study on Music Theory, and will begin Shakespeare's Julius Caesar this coming week.
I need to watch "The Haunting". Big fan of "The Turn of the Screw," and I want to re-read it, maybe next year. Terrific book. I'll look for the "The Innocents". Thanks for the recommendations!
Oh, you’ve totally sold me now on Freud! Wanna get my hands on The Uncanny… I’m hoping to get around to H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories this month, got the beautiful Penguin Orange Collection special edition of that one recently…
The first part of "The Uncanny" was a slog through etymology, but once he gets into the analysis of "The Sandman" by Hoffman, I got more into it. Those Penguin Orange editions look nice!
I have a false memory. I remember sitting on my great grandfather's lap and getting my picture taken. I know it's false because he died before I was born. The child in the photo is my father. That photograph sat on a desk next to a picture of me at about the same age and because I looked the same as my father at that age my juvenile mind associated the two and created a false memory
Fascinating. Check out Freud's "Screen Memories" essay and see if it applies! It's a fast read.
Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House" was wonderful, one of the very best haunted house novels. Robert Wise's 1967 adaptation "The Haunting" was excellent, well worth a watch. The 1999 remake not so much. The Netflix adaptation "The Haunting of Hill House" was very good, to my mind, but it was not the book, if an interesting take - less ghostly gothic than it is creepy miniseries.
Personally, I think Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" is far superior, however. It is so much more sinister. Consider watching the 1961 adaptation "The Innocents," with Deborah Kerr, if you haven't already. The Netflix miniseries "The Haunting of Bly Manor" is very good, too, far truer to James' novella than their "Hill House" was to Jackson's novel (I think Bly Manor is ranked the least of the Halloween miniseries Flannagan created for Netflix, but on rewatching them all last season, I think Bly Manor is the best of the lot, but I do prefer gothic horror to gore).
My reading? Not much new to report at present.
2/3 through The Iliad, 1/2 through Frankenstein, will complete the A. Christie collection "Autumn Chills" this weekend, one lengthy essay to read of DFW's "Consider the Lobster."
I have begun a study on Music Theory, and will begin Shakespeare's Julius Caesar this coming week.
I need to watch "The Haunting". Big fan of "The Turn of the Screw," and I want to re-read it, maybe next year. Terrific book. I'll look for the "The Innocents". Thanks for the recommendations!