Oh The Horror!

“nice pandemic link viol man”

““One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, ‘I am lying here in the dark waiting for death.’ The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to murmur, ‘Oh, nonsense!’ and stood over him as if transfixed.

“Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn’t touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of somber pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror—of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision,—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath—

“’The horror! The horror!’”

“I know Joseph Conrad's writing don't have anything to do with REI's article, but the title of this thread reminded my of one of my favorite books.”

“Never read any Conrad. The thread title actually made me think of Lovecraft.”

“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcozKfpbmaA

it is work safe”

“Mem-Maurys? Yikes!

(Thanks for pulling up the thread it was fun re-reading it).
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“Still as bad as it was the other day...I think she finally eclipsed her total career with that song.”