1973 年的彈珠玩具。Pinball 1973 (2)


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Image inspired by the novel of Haruki Murakami "Pinball 1973"

我喜歡聽遙遠的地方的故事
那些地方，我像冬眠前的熊一樣 儲藏著好多
只要一閉上眼睛，那些街道、民房，一一浮現
聽得見人們的聲音
甚至可以感覺到在那些遙遠的地方
永遠也不可能和我交往的人們
和緩而確實的生活波潮

- 村上春樹 [ 1973 年的彈珠玩具 ]

Black Bottle Man


Image by Patrick Johanneson
A novel by Craig Russell, a local author.
Reviewed.

Start Here: This is a pictoral story from my first novel: “Darkly Springs the Soul” Page 1


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There are many strange and foreboding places where the warming glow of a noon-day sun never touches. And being such places of eternal darkness, there, just beneath the surface of our perception, lies an atmosphere wherein lurk malign entities culled from the darkest corners of man’s souls throughout history, straining to be set loose upon the face of a dismal planet and prey on unsuspecting passers-by. There they bide their time in seething hatred of life, and living, and ALL that it stands for: that which they can no longer have—nor ever take, ‘cept in the cold, hard hours of the night when men’s fancies may give them cause to doubt the solidity of that which they otherwise call “reality”. Once sunken to the depths of this uncertain morass of darkness, men entertain other thoughts; certain ideas of deep and dreadful intent which each one assumes is his or her own secret shame as they huddle in unspoken horror that the rumors of a “hidden reality” may actually be true.
It is at times such as this that purchase is given for theses two disparate realms to cross; the one warm and bright—the other, cold, dark and as murky as the depths of the deepest unknown ocean, and just as frightening. Together, the laws of nature become blurred, uncertain. Shadows of dark, heavy, seldom glimpsed shapes lumber putrescent and just out of range or around strange corners with unnatural angles that we privately pray are not there.

I have arranged these into their own set for ease of access and to read in sequence.