[Salamander]

W.B. Yeats ping

[SunkenCiv]

https://interestingliterature.com/2016/01/11/a-short-analysis-of-yeatss-the-second-coming/

[shibumi]

Suffering from Yeatsian disconfrabulation,
While mine is minded
Amid Joycean Jibberish Jousts
Of the New Frontier
As I sling my garrulous gats,
To play out yet another set with Set.

For I am but the Current Cowboy
In the Boat of Ra.

(Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)

[Salamander]

In the strange labyrinth that is my mind, all of this leads inevitably to Lovecraft.

Now I ride with the mocking and friendly ghouls on the night-wind, and play by day amongst the catacombs of Nephren-Ka in the sealed and unknown valley of Hadoth by the Nile.

I know that light is not for me, save that of the moon over the rock tombs of Neb, nor any gaiety save the unnamed feasts of Nitokris beneath the Great Pyramid; yet in my new wildness and freedom I almost welcome the bitterness of alienage.

For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.