Am I supposed to make sense out of any of this goddamn book?
>>23978679Just read the first four stories. Five if I'm being generous. And no there's no puzzle to be solved here.
>>23978721I'm in the middle of The Street of the First Shell and wondering what the fuck it has to do with anything. So far my favorite stories are The Yellow Sign and The Demoiselle d'Ys. I wasn't expecting it to be an anthology.
>>23978752you weren't expecting it to be exactly what it's sold as? not the sharpest tool in the shed are we anon?
>>23978758I always assumed it was a singular novel.
The wine tastes the same, but I wish to share it with them, now gone, the feeling remains the same
>>23978679I don't know who came first: Chambers with his play, or Lovecraft with the Necronomicon, but I find the King in Yellow to be far more enticing than its counterpart. Borges' infinite "book of sand" is close second.
>>23978779that's your problem lol
>>23978679what filtered you?
>>23978990There's very little about the actual play and just random stories that don't seem to have anything to do with anything. Am I missing something?
>>23978752When that anon said the "first four stories" he meant The Repairer of Reputations, The Mask, In the Court of the Dragon, and The Yellow Sign (in that order).
Is it weird that I love this more than HP lovecraft's work? there is something about this that is so... charming.
>>23979220I know, and I've already passed them. So I guess I'm done, huh?
>>23978987Sheesh take the dildo out of your ass
>>23979049nope, that's all that one can get. There's no hidden theme. only booked named after the short story+3 others. It's memed a lot on youtube and by redditors(muh lovecraft took inspiration of this so heckin cool)/muh detective season 1.I liked the king in yellow short story as the gradual maddening of the main character is so smooth yoi can almost miss it to some point even though he's constantly warned about the king in the yellow. Liquid turning into gold was also cool. Don't remember the other 2.
>>23978679I thought it was a single bookWhy the fuck is it sold as a single one
>>23978679I kinda liked the faggy love stories at the end.
>>23978679>>23978721The final stories have their charm. Would not skip them.>>23982160This anon gets itAlso Clifford character hard carries the last stories:>Around about, the sparrows quarrelled and chattered their courtship songs, the big rosy pigeons sailed from tree to tree, the flies whirled in the sunbeams and the flowers exhaled a thousand perfumes which stirred Clifford with languorous wistfulness. Under this influence he spoke.>"Elliott, you are a true friend—">"You make me ill," replied the latter, folding his paper. "It's just as I thought,—you are tagging after some new petticoat again. And," he continued wrathfully, "if this is what you've kept me away from Julian's for,—if it's to fill me up with the perfections of some little idiot—">"Not idiot," remonstrated Clifford gently.>"See here," cried Elliott, "have you the nerve to try to tell me that you are in love again?">"Again?">"Yes, again and again and again and—by George have you?">"This," observed Clifford sadly, "is serious.">For a moment Elliott would have laid hands on him, then he laughed from sheer helplessness. "Oh, go on, go on; let's see, there's Clémence and Marie Tellec and Cosette and Fifine, Colette, Marie Verdier—">"All of whom are charming, most charming, but I never was serious—">"So help me, Moses," said Elliott, solemnly, "each and every one of those named have separately and in turn torn your heart with anguish and have also made me lose my place at Julian's in this same manner; each and every one, separately and in turn. Do you deny it?">"What you say may be founded on facts—in a way—but give me the credit of being faithful to one at a time—">"Until the next came along.">"But this,—this is really very different. Elliott, believe me, I am all broken up.">Then there being nothing else to do, Elliott gnashed his teeth and listened.
