Madness is subjective. The insane never believe they're crazy, the problem is always in the outside world, never within. By those standards, the last Bush Administration was positively mad.
I see the world in a different way than most, and am lucky enough to have a venue to express it, in my books. This is a place to share that point of view between novels. It is dedicated to the memory of Sutter Cane, the fictional horror author of John Carpenter's, "In the Mouth of Madness," an homage to Lovecraft, and one of the best adaptations of his style into cinema. Sutter Cane believed by the end that his work wasn't fiction, but real, that he was driven to write by ancient gods, the Old Ones, to provide a doorway for them to re-enter the world through his work.
I won't go that far -- but here, I hope to open the door to alternate means of thinking and seeing, in effect, creating a new world in the midst of our old one. I invite you to join me. In the words of Sutter Cane, "The more people who believe, the faster the journey..."
Sunday, October 26, 2008
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