Post by Eugene 2.0 on Sept 17, 2022 12:59:37 GMT
According to a German philosopher Martin Heidegger we can meet the Nothing /Emptiness/, that is alternative to the Being, when we fear. Not when we're scared of something, and not frightened by someone, no – when the true faceless fear is facing us.
To explain this kind of fear let's read this quote of Lovecraft:
"Horror - the true horror that paralyzes the mind and scars it with nightmares
- is never truly healed"
and an adopted to Lovecraft's novelization style passage:
Arkham Asylum
16th February 1922
(The camera shows the front gate of the mental asylum.)
Jack Walters: Now... at my end... I can fully see.
Jack: My last case opened in me a new fear... a real fear... a fear of myself,
of what I am... and of what I have always been.
(Jack Walters, the protagonist, is sitting on the floor in a small cell,
holding a small notebook, apparently his journal, in his hands. He looks
delirious and there are strange symbols and writing on the walls and the floor.
On the floor, just in front of Jack, there is a large star sign with an eye
symbol in the middle. All the symbols in the room appear to have been made with
blood.)
Jack: All that I was, is now lost. Hope? Purpose? Pleasure? All meaningless.
Jack: I now walk in the shadows between worlds... and it is there I have
finally glimpsed upon what lives in the dark corners of the Earth...
(Jack steps on a chair to hang himself. The camera shows a doctor walking
through a hallway with several hysterical inmates. The doctor sees that Jack is
committing suicide and quickly enters the cell, trying to stop him. Jack's
journal falls onto the floor from his hands.)[\i]
To explain this kind of fear let's read this quote of Lovecraft:
"Horror - the true horror that paralyzes the mind and scars it with nightmares
- is never truly healed"
and an adopted to Lovecraft's novelization style passage:
Arkham Asylum
16th February 1922
(The camera shows the front gate of the mental asylum.)
Jack Walters: Now... at my end... I can fully see.
Jack: My last case opened in me a new fear... a real fear... a fear of myself,
of what I am... and of what I have always been.
(Jack Walters, the protagonist, is sitting on the floor in a small cell,
holding a small notebook, apparently his journal, in his hands. He looks
delirious and there are strange symbols and writing on the walls and the floor.
On the floor, just in front of Jack, there is a large star sign with an eye
symbol in the middle. All the symbols in the room appear to have been made with
blood.)
Jack: All that I was, is now lost. Hope? Purpose? Pleasure? All meaningless.
Jack: I now walk in the shadows between worlds... and it is there I have
finally glimpsed upon what lives in the dark corners of the Earth...
(Jack steps on a chair to hang himself. The camera shows a doctor walking
through a hallway with several hysterical inmates. The doctor sees that Jack is
committing suicide and quickly enters the cell, trying to stop him. Jack's
journal falls onto the floor from his hands.)[\i]