The City of Dreadful Night

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The City of Dreadful Night Anonymage 03/22/25 (Sat) 02:18:48 No.299042

"Why break the seals of mute despair unbidden
And wail life's discords into careless ears?
…
If any cares for the weak words here written,
It must be someone desolate, fate-smitten,
Whose faith and hope are dead, and who would die."
https://archive.org/details/cityofdreadfulni00thomrich/page/1/mode/1up

Anonymage 03/22/25 (Sat) 02:28:42 No.299043

James Thomson's last days
https://archive.org/details/lifeofjamesthoms00saltiala/page/132/mode/1up
"thwarted and hampered by the development of inherited infirmities and the weight of external misfortunes, until he is involved in a Nessus-robe of doubt and failure and despair; yet all the while by sheer strength and courage of intellect looking his destiny in the face, and maintaining to the last his gentleness towards others and his constancy to himself"

Anonymage 03/22/25 (Sat) 20:36:37 No.299067

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'To Our Ladies of Death' was written in the 27th of his 47 years of life

Anonymage 03/22/25 (Sat) 20:41:33 No.299069

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'The City of Dreadful Night' was begun in his 35th year

Anonymage 03/24/25 (Mon) 05:50:12 No.299105

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"The organ-like vibrations of his voice
thrilled through the vaulted aisles and died away"

Anonymage 04/19/25 (Sat) 18:41:08 No.299849

Thanks Wiz

Anonymage 04/20/25 (Sun) 19:44:08 No.299874

>>299849
A wizard should know Bysshe Vanolis

Anonymage 06/28/25 (Sat) 23:43:44 No.301561

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"Whence come you in the world of life and light
to this our City of Tremendous Night?"

Anonymage 06/29/25 (Sun) 00:16:24 No.301562

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"I wake from daydreams to this real night."

Anonymage 06/29/25 (Sun) 23:35:24 No.301576

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"For their woe broods maddening inwardly"