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Flowers of the Abyss by Thomas Ligotti
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“If things are not what they seem—and we are forever reminded that this is the case—then it must also be observed that enough of us ignore this truth to keep the world from collapsing.”
Thomas Ligotti, "The Mystics of Muelenburg" (in Grimscribe: His Lives and Works, 1991)
I must whisper my words in the wind, knowing somehow that they will reach you who sent me here. Let this misadventure, like the first rank scent of autumn, be carried back to you, my good people. For it was you who decided where I would go, you who wished I come here and to him.
“Flowers of the Abyss” by Thomas Ligotti, published in Grimscribe: His Lives and Works
Doesn’t have arms, but it knows how to use them. Doesn’t have a face, but it knows where to find one.
Thomas Ligotti, Grimscribe
Even the most esoteric ecstasy, when it comes down to it, requires the prop of vulgar pain in order to stand up as an experience. Having acknowledged the truth, however provisional, and the reality, if subject to mutation, of all the strange things in the universe - whether known, unknown, or merely suspected – one is left with no recourse than to conclude that none of them makes any difference, that such marvels change nothing: our experience remains the same. The gallery of human sensations that existed in prehistory is identical to the one that faces each life today, that will continue to face each new life as it enters this world… and then looks beyond it.
Thomas Ligotti, “The Spectacles in the Drawer”
Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti, cover by Aeron Alfrey (Subterranean Press, 2011)