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Just Finished
The fourth volume of the Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing anthology. Loved it. I don’t have much to say about the work as a whole, other than being just one more result of the brilliance of Moore. To sum it up, it’s a work in metaphysics, exploring the nature of good and evil, and an attempt to redefine them.
I enjoyed one scene in particular that didn’t entirely have much to do with the thematics of the greater work, but it made me go back to my theories concerning the origin of sorcery. A wizard dies, and panics, and is told by one of his peers to fall silent and die as a wizard should, and the wizard obliges, and dies with pride.
It doesn’t have much to do with the scene itself, but I just feel that it only follows for a sorcerer to die silently, damning the world to be forever ignorant of the origins of his powers; as the Archetype of the sorcerer, I believe, was born of an utter contempt for the limitation that is integral to the human experience, as well as for the human experience itself. He should die in a contemptful manner, leaving the world to be forever in awe of his accomishments.
Of course, a wizard of any /true/ merit should never die in the first place. The best wizards either live forever, or live in reverse.
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petrellica said:
Swamp Thing is absolutely fucking brilliant. No doubt.
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