"The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction ... From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again."
Oct 16, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Weird fiction has its own consistency, which can be most clearly delineated by comparing it to two adjacent modes, Fantasy and the Uncanny: 1/4
Fantasy (Tolkien is the exemplar here) presupposes a completed World, a world that's superficially different to 'ours' (there may be different species & supernatural forces) but is politically all-too familiar -with some nostalgia for the ordered organization of feudal hierarchy
