"Many are transforming in that glorious condition normally described as decay. Transforming through splinter and chemical imbalance. By fading and forgetfulness." - Brian Catling, Lantern Slides, Several Clouds Colliding

"So I think when I'm looking at you, I see you there. But I can't just explain what you are. I see you there and you could be photographed, but then after you'd been photographed, one still wouldn't know what your realism was. You'd have to find a technique by which you can give over all the pulsations of a realism of a person…

I'm talking bollocks…" - Francis Bacon, The Brutality Of Fact

"If you can talk about it, why paint it?" - Francis Bacon

Main works discussed:
The Horror at Red Hook - H. P. Lovecraft
The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle
The Courtyard - Alan Moore
Neonomicon - Alan Moore
Providence - Alan Moore

"So you think you know what terror is
As it stares from the newspaper page
Yeah of course you all know what horror is
It's the rage of the age
Well, intimidation doesn't have a focus
It oozes from every pore
Murder doesn't bother to whisper
In this fucking town it roars"
- The Badge Means You Suck, AK-47

"Old time, something come back again
If you have a start, then you must have an end
None of them ever could've test with the pen
My pen's the equivalent to the leng" - Bad Like We, Wiley

Featuring a guest appearance by non-euclidian, cacodaemoniacal podcast entity and academic Cameron Kunzleman, author of the recently published Everything Is Permitted and cohost of many podcasts on the Ranged Touch network including Just King Things and Shelved By Genre.

Interlude by the great Evil Sword.

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"Tell me what you know about a man's affliction
PC plod talk pure science fiction" - Cowboy Dave, Happy Mondays

"You can't have feelings alone" - William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Works covered:
And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks
Junky: The Definitve Text Of Junk
Queer
Yage Redux

"The elementary unit of language — the statement — is the order-word. Rather than common sense, a faculty for the centralization of information, we must define an abominable faculty consisting in emitting, receiving, and transmitting order-words. Language is made not to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience...Words are not tools, but we give children language, pens, and notebooks as we give workers shovels and pickaxes. A rule of grammar is a power marker before it is a syntactical marker. The order does not refer to prior significations or to a prior organization of distinctive units. Quite the opposite. Information is only the strict minimum necessary for the emission, transmission, and observation of orders as commands...Language is not life; it gives life orders. Life does not speak; it listens and waits." - A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari

I'm happy to welcome the Booktube's best critic and only tasteful video editor Matt Bookpilled back on the show. Matt's channel is one of the main inspirations behind SFUltra and his engaging, thoughtful approach to reading means his patreon is worth it and then some.
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