wally wonder
September 13th, 2009, 11:34 PM
hi. reading this collection again. (nice intro by john d mcdonald and an interesting forward by sk) but i don't like the ambiguity in this first story. troublesome. has to do w/some images in the story.
most troublesome is the lamb. who, or what, placed the lamb there? 'down the center aisle, like a ghastly bridal path, was a trail of black ichor, mingled with the sinister tendrils of blood. our eyes followed it to the pulpit--the only untouched thing in view. atop it, staring at us from across that blasphemous book with glazed eyes, was the butchered body of a lamb."
calvin whispers, god.
and why is the body of the lamb transparent where it lay over the book?
the church is a wreck. the wicked cross has been hurled (like paradise lost, him he hurled headlong flaming...from the ethereal sky[maybe]). so was the force at work there a force for good? or was it some combination of the worm and/or james boon? or just a hallucination? the last of the boone line, at the end, believes his ancestor charles was wrong--there is no sign of explosion or huge damage to the floor where the thing "skyrockets" from below.
and what to make of the trail that clifton brockett found beyond chapelwaie, where all had withered and gone white?
:dunno:
most troublesome is the lamb. who, or what, placed the lamb there? 'down the center aisle, like a ghastly bridal path, was a trail of black ichor, mingled with the sinister tendrils of blood. our eyes followed it to the pulpit--the only untouched thing in view. atop it, staring at us from across that blasphemous book with glazed eyes, was the butchered body of a lamb."
calvin whispers, god.
and why is the body of the lamb transparent where it lay over the book?
the church is a wreck. the wicked cross has been hurled (like paradise lost, him he hurled headlong flaming...from the ethereal sky[maybe]). so was the force at work there a force for good? or was it some combination of the worm and/or james boon? or just a hallucination? the last of the boone line, at the end, believes his ancestor charles was wrong--there is no sign of explosion or huge damage to the floor where the thing "skyrockets" from below.
and what to make of the trail that clifton brockett found beyond chapelwaie, where all had withered and gone white?
:dunno: