Ryan, a 48-year-old teacher living in North Carolina, quite literally wishes he had never been born. He has a “deep resentment” towards his parents. He believes they were wrong to bring him into existence, and that it would be wrong for him to bring someone else into existence, too. “Life has been an experience of […]
This is the thing that troubles me, for I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars hand in the heavens; where the shadows of men’s thoughts lengthen in the afternoon, where the twin suns sink into the Lake of Hali; and my mind will bear forever the memory of the Pallid Mask.