"A glutinous mass, endowed with a malignant will, what can be more horrible?"
---the novel Toilers of the Sea, by Victor Hugo, as translated from the French by W. Moy Thomas (x)
We joke about Lovecraft seeing an octopus once and succumbing to existential horror, but Hugo outdoes him. The chapter this is quoted from seems to be just a prolonged rant on the vileness of these sea creatures and what they imply about the question of evil.
No comments:
Post a Comment