Experiences entered by angusif

Confessions
Experience: Self-Irony
Narrative Technology: Conversion Narrative
"My flesh stirred up steamy lust...I was in the sixteenth year of my flesh....O the blindness of flesh!"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Varney the Vampire
Experience: Connection
Narrative Technology: Second Method
"With a sudden rush that could not be foreseen--with a strange howling cry that was enough to awaken terror in every breast, the figure siezed the long tresses of her hair, and twining them round his bony hands he held her to the bed. Then she screamed--Heaven granted her then power to scream. Shriek followed shriek in rapid succession. The bed-clothes fell in a heap by the side of the bed--she was dragged by her long silken hair completely on to it again. Her beautifully rounded limbs quivered with the agony of her soul. The glassy, horrible eyes of the figure ran over that angelic form with a hideous satisfaction--horrible profanation. He drags her head to the bed's edge. He forces it back by the long hair still entwined in his grasp. With a plunge he seizes her neck in his fang-like teeth--a gush of blood, and a hideous sucking noise follows. The girl has swooned, and the vampire is at his hideous repast"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The Godfather
Experience: Connection
Narrative Technology: Partial Dopamine
"There was something false in all this. Animals. Animals. His beautiful young daughter was still in the hospital with her broken jaw wired together, and now these two animales went free? Out of control, Bonasera leaned forward toward the aisle and shouted hoarsely, 'You will weep as I have wept--I will make you week as your children make me weep.' Wild visions of buying a gun and killing the two young men jangled the very bones of his skull. Bonasera turned to his still uncomprehending wife and explained to her, 'They have made fools of us.' He paused and then made his decision, no longer fearing the cost. 'For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.'"
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
The String of Pearls
Experience: Connection
Narrative Technology: Partial Dopamine
An issue ends with Sweeny Todd holding a blade against Mr. Grant's throat (after attacking his apprentice in the next room) and readers are left unsure if he will attack his client next.
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025
Ulysses
Experience: Confusion
Narrative Technology: Stream of Consciousness
Lots of referents missing in this passage (the reader works to sort this out) "Ineluctable modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot. Snotgreen, bluesilver, rust: coloured signs. Limits of the diaphane. But he adds: in bodies. Then he was aware of them bodies before of them coloured. How? By knocking his sconce against them, sure. Go easy. Bald he was and a millionaire, maestro di color che sanno. Limit of the diaphane in. Why in? Diaphane, adiaphane. If you can put your five fingers through it, it is a gate, if not a door. Shut your eyes and see."
Contributed by: angusif
January 9, 2025