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December 21, 2004

The Yellow Sign

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There are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte Cécile send my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small green lizard, murmuring: "To think that this is also a little ward of God!"

- Robert W. Chambers, "The Yellow Sign" (1895)

Posted by Ghost of a flea at December 21, 2004 09:57 AM

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Flea, what are you doing?!! That's from The King in Yellow! Don't you know what happens when people read that? Horrible things... horrible!

I must say no more, except... may God have mercy on the now cruelly fated souls of the Flea readership! AAAIIIIEEEE!!!

Posted by: Varenius at December 21, 2004 01:29 PM

Now this is from The King in Yellow:

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa
Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies
But stranger still is
Lost Carcosa
Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa
Song of my soul, my voice is dead,
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed
Shall dry and die in
Lost Carcosa

-Cassilda's Song in 'The King in Yellow'
Act I. Scene 2.

Posted by: Flea at December 21, 2004 02:08 PM

And I nearly forgot to ask... Varenius, have you found the Yellow Sign?

Posted by: Flea at December 21, 2004 02:12 PM

Yes, and now we all shall find it, as your infernally foul copy-and-paste draws us into the pustulent embrace of the King in Yellow...

Posted by: Varenius at December 21, 2004 08:15 PM