c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…be implied that it's something incredibly ghastly but beyond your imagination. And all the great writers like Arthur Macon and Edgar Allan Poe, who have written of real ghastly horror stories, never fully describe the nature of horror. They hint at it and…
…it to die and that's that. Now don't imagine yourself lying around forever in a dark room, buried alive as an Edgar Allan Poe. No experience of darkness, no experience of anything, neither darkness nor light. I can give you an immediate illustration of…
…it to die, and that's that now don't imagine yourself lying around forever in a dark room, buried. Alive as an Edgar Allan Poe: no experience of darkness, no experience of anything, neither darkness nor light. I can give you an immediate illustration of…
…details. And that's real magic. It's done in another way by writers working in a completely different dimension. People like, say Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Macon were masters of it in evoking a sense of extreme horror. When you want to give people the…
…of it in evoking a sense of extreme horror. When you want to give people the real heebie jeebies, never be specific, just as Poe in that story the pit and the pendulum doesn't specify at all what was in the pit but nevertheless gets away with leaving…