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mizrychik62

seemingly random post of madness --though not

Jun 22, 2009 22:58

SREDNI VASHTAR( Read more... )

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rachelsummers77 June 23 2009, 12:38:44 UTC

Enjoyably creepy...you also might want to check out the song based on it by Faith and the Muse--lyrics are here. They just leave out the part when the singer hisses "do one thing for me".

riaki June 23 2009, 13:12:44 UTC

WOW!Faith and the Muse have a song based on this? I had no idea and I love Faith and the Muse. Must look into it.
Thanks ;)

rachelsummers77 June 23 2009, 13:17:05 UTC

You're welcome! I first heard it on a Metropolis compilation, and ended up researching the story as a result. I like the song, myself.

riaki June 23 2009, 13:23:49 UTC

Yeah, it's very nice. Just found it on youtube and listening to it ;D

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riaki June 23 2009, 13:08:39 UTC

That was weird and creepy, but I guess that's why I liked it. Especially the part Conradin sings the hymn to Sredni Vashtar was hair-raising:

Sredni Vashtar went forth,
His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.
His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.
Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.

I shall try to find the whole book. Are all the other stories as absurd as this one?And a bit OT, but the whole Sredni Vashtar cult the boy established kind of reminded me of Alan Moore and his worshipping of the Roman Snake God Glycon.
Absurdity yet again, but with less blood and more humor in Glycon's/Alan Moore's case!

mizrychik62 July 2 2009, 20:23:02 UTC

It is, isn't it? That story is in The Chronicles of Clovis. Saki really reminds me of Oscar Wilde, only snarkier and occasionally bloodier. He pokes fun at his society, but not in a kind, 'I want to be one of them really'-Wilde way. More like, 'I never shall, the bastards, so let them suffer'. The wit and sarcasm are very prickly.
Project Gutenberg has all of them: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a152

Thanks for playing!