{"id":16232,"date":"2020-10-03T16:42:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16232"},"modified":"2020-10-03T16:42:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T20:42:37","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-3-little-sister-of-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16232","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 3 – Little sister of darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place
\nyour sight can knock on, echoing; but here
\nwithin this thick black pelt, your strongest gaze
\nwill be absorbed and utterly disappear:<\/p>\n

just as a raving madman, when nothing else
\ncan ease him, charges into his dark night
\nhowling, pounds on the padded wall, and feels
\nthe rage being taken in and pacified.<\/p>\n

She seems to hide all looks that have ever fallen
\ninto her, so that, like an audience,
\nshe can look them over, menacing and sullen,
\nand curl to sleep with them. But all at once<\/p>\n

as if awakened, she turns her face to yours;
\nand with a shock, you see yourself, tiny,
\ninside the golden amber of her eyeballs
\nsuspended, like a prehistoric fly.<\/em><\/p>\n

– Rainer Maria Rilke, “Black Cat” (1923)<\/p>\n

Recommended listening:<\/strong> UK Decay – The Black Cat (from The Black 45 EP<\/em>, 1980)<\/p>\n