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I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies, as I myself do, I charge you forever reject those who would expound me, for I cannot expound myself, I charge that there be no theory or school founded out of me, I charge you to leave all free, as I have left all free.

Walt Whitman, Myself and Mine

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“People became more aware of the black metal scene after Pelle took his own life. It was a suicide that changed the scene.”

Necrobutcher

“Before Pelle came along, it was just fun. Then I realized that I didn’t want to be part of this. People who were simply crazy, like Vikernes, started pouring in. And Øystein became stranger and stranger. It was a shame he turned out the way he did. It probably had something to do with the status he gained within the scene. He was very small, maybe five feet three inches. I think he made up for it by being mean and evil.”

Torben Grue

“There was a paradigm shift when Pelle died. Øystein became aware of his position and began to dictate what people should like. That was when the black metal scene became preoccupied with everything that was satanic and evil.”

Bård/Faust

Anecdotes on how Pelle's death changed the scene, from 666 Shades of Black by Harald Fossberg, 2026

[joeinct]

Damme, Belgium, Photo by Lynn Geesaman, 1992

[alicedelarge]

“‘This was my idea’, admits Ketil Sveen now. ‘Not the smartest thing I’ve ever done, and in hindsight, I realize it should not have been done. At the time, I was perhaps a little naive. I didn’t think that someone who was crazy enough to burn down a church would be stupid enough to go to the newspaper and brag about it. But it’s possible that I was wrong.’

When ‘The Count’ went to Bergens Tidende and bragged about the church fire, Ketil Sveen thought: ‘Why couldn’t he have waited until the record came back from the press in a couple of weeks?’

‘This was great PR, and we don’t have a product to deliver! How stupid can you be?’"

Ketil Sveen (Voices of Wonder) on using lighters to promote Aske and VV's stupidity in 666 Shades of Black by Harald Fossberg, 2026

[random-brushstrokes]

Andrey Shilder - The Stream in Forest (1906)

[philosophybits]

“We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden

[centuriespast]

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[philosophybits]

“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.”

— Baruch Spinoza, “Letter to Hugo Boxel” (1674)

[questionableadvice]

~ The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c., by William Kitchiner, 1822

[more-than-ideas]

Inge Morath

Landstrasse

Vienna, 1988

[requiem-on-water]

Jupiter (2024) (1,2) NASA/Gerald Eichstädt/Thomas Thomopoulos (3,4) NASA/Jackie Branc

[thirdity]

“If energy is imperishable, how much more so is love! Like energy, which is still a complete enigma, love is always there, always on tap. Man has never created an ounce of energy, nor did he create love. Love and energy have always been, always will be. Perhaps in essence they are one and the same. Why not? Perhaps this mysterious energy which is identified with the life of the universe, which is God in action, as some one has said, perhaps this secret, all-invasive force is but the manifestation of love.”

— Henry Miller, The Rosy Crucifixion

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[alicedelarge]

This is a quote by Metalion from the book "666 Shades of Black" by Harald Fossberg.

Obviously there is a mistake when it comes to the date, since 1. the show happened in November of 1991 and 2. Helvete wasn't even open in 1990, so I'm guessing it's a typo.

[alicedelarge]

“At the time, partly because it was such a small scene, it was almost like a demand that every band would have to be something special. You couldn’t just put out a record. Euronymous had all these funny ideas in his head, like ‘Darkthrone should do the Satanic, necro stuff, Immortal should be the Kiss of black metal, Burzum should concentrate on the atmospheric stuff…’, so we almost had this situation where you would be the minister of finance, and you would be the minister of foreign affairs and so on…[laughs] Even at such a young age I thought to myself that it was amusing and a little strange, but what was clear to all of us was that we pushed each other so that the minimum standard was that you had to be unique.”

Sigurd (Satyr) in the Nemesis Divina booklet, 2016

[requiem-on-water]