Can't argue that, simple observation'll turn that up.
> S'funny-- three years ago when I was initiating my studies into the
> gothic I mentioned the turn of the millennium axiety to my committee and
> they said-- No, No it's just some revival of the victorian gothic.
Strange. I suppose, from a business sense, it was in their best
interest to say its a real and valid change in the cultural content of
the population, not oh, just something that happens every hundred
years or so.
> BTW-- Lovecraft is a wonderful modern novelist. I havea link to a good
> Lovecraft site on my homepage.
Between Lovecraft, Moorcock's Elric, Donaldson's Thomas Covenant and
Hickman's Raistlin was my young psyche forged. No /wonder/ I'm so
screwed up. :)
> But the aspect of the gothic thatmost interested me is that it is an
> *inherently* subversive text. It sets itself up to disregard any
> delineation between good and evil, moral and amoral-- and in the finest
> works-- unseats our faith in reason. It is the one literary form that
> provides *no* position on anything.
I'm not sure it presents no position on anything; it must actively or
passively assault the belief in good, evil, morality, amorality and
reason, and as such take a position that Nullity is Preferable. It
may not be a /deep/ position, but it is a position ...