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The Human Chord
Algernon Blackwood
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"Everything in nature has its name, and he who has the power to call a thing by its proper name can make it subservient to his will; for its proper name is not the arbitrary name given to it by man, but the expression of the totality of its powers and attributes, because the powers and attributes of each Being are intimately connected with its means of expression, and between both exists the most exact proportion in regard to measure, time, and condition."
The meaning of the four quotations, as he read them, plunged down into him and touched inner . . . Read More
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The opening lines of this story have the narrator speaking the theme that Blackwood works almost obsessively in every thing I’ve read by him: namely, that thought and imagination bring things into existence. It may not be a purely physical reality, but the fears and horrors of the mind can nonethele
In his masterful collection of 1912 entitled "Pan's Garden," British author Algernon Blackwood clearly displayed his belief in the sentience and awareness of such facets of Nature as trees, snow, gardens, the wind, subterranean fires, the seas and the deserts, and of their transformative powers for
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A Review Fantasia plus Spoilers in 3 Acts and a Prelude
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A young man - ROBERT SPINROBIN - sensitive and effeminate in appearance, sits in a threadbare apartment in turn-of-the-century London, with a newspaper in his lap.
SPINROBIN (to the audience): "Alas! Where is
Algernon Blackwood’s work is a treasure I’ve been able to hoard since getting a Kindle. (Cost and shelf space preventing me from indulging previously. If I’d known how much I’d fall in love with his stories, I’d have tried to make room for both. Happily, having a Kindle means I don’t have to.)
The H
I really liked the concept explored in this book. Unfortunately, not a lot happened overall and the description of the protagonist's feelings and experiences became redundant. The ending was only unpredictable in the sense that I thought "Nah...that would be too predictable and disappointing."
Back when I was a music major in college, I took a class in chamber music. We formed a woodwind quartet and our professor was a stickler for tone. We would practice one note for an hour and a half every week, tuning and playing, tuning and playing. We were about to mutiny when all of a sudden as we