The songs on Pretty Hate Machine feature catchy melodies set against dark, introspective lyrics; Reznor proclaimed this combination "a sincere statement" of "what was in [his] head at the time".[13] In the album's liner notes, Reznor thanks horror fiction writer Clive Barker for inspiration....
The songs on Pretty Hate Machine feature catchy melodies set against dark, introspective lyrics; Reznor proclaimed this combination "a sincere statement" of "what was in [his] head at the time".[13] In the album's liner notes, Reznor thanks horror fiction writer Clive Barker for inspiration....
The younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly, too. The tom-tom cries, and the tom-tom laughs. If ...
Dragon,thatliesdormantinthesoulsofthestrong.Thisraisingofhidden(dark) potentialcanonlybereachedthroughthereceivingofGnosis,i.e.knowledge.This knowledge/gnosisissynonymoustoTheTorchofLucifer,Prometheus'Fire, Samyaza'sGift,TheBlackFireofAhriman,TheVenomofTaninsam,TheSmokeless FireofTyphonandthePhilosopher's stone...
On 18 January 1892, Carrie Balestier (aged 29) and Rudyard Kipling (aged 26) married in London, in the "thick of an influenza epidemic, when the undertakers had run out of black horses and the dead had to be content with brown ones."[25] The wedding was held at All Souls Church in...
".Heart of Darknessimplicitly comments on imperialism and racism.[1] The novella's setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his fascination for the prolific ivory trader Kurtz. Conrad draws parallels between London ("the greatest town on earth") and Africa as places of darkness.[2]...
The name "Godot" is pronounced in Britain and Ireland with the emphasis on the first syllable, /ˈɡɒdoʊ/GOD-oh;[2] in North America it is usually pronounced with an emphasis on the second syllable, /ɡəˈdoʊ/gə-DOH. Beckett himself said the emphasis should be on the...