One eye, the left eye, had completely foundered among bubbling purulence, and the other, which remained half open, looked like a deep, black, ruinous hole. The pustules had invaded the whole of the face… and on that formless pulp, where the features had ceased to be traceable, they already resembled some decaying damp from the grave. “She was fruit of the charnel house, a heap of matter and blood, a shovelful of corrupted flesh thrown down on the pillow. Is this Cannibal Corpse or is it a French novel from 1880?! Take the fate that Émile Zola allotted to his prostitute protagonist Nana, for example. Besides, in famous works, you will find countless gruesome descriptions of death that will scare you into living. Emil Cioran, a Romanian-born philosopher, was certainly a dude who employed the same kind of skewed logic that a lot of us headbangers use: “Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”ĭon’t let any of this leave you feeling too depressed. The last miscreant seriously went around advising patients not to take their medicine while working as a porter during WWII. Søren Kierkegaard will bring out your “Fear and Trembling,” Arthur Schopenhauer was obviously a downer, Machiavelli was a total fox, Camus was pretty absurd, Madame Helena Blavatsky was a diabolical charlatan, Immanuel Kant will bore you to death with his goddamn categories, and Ludwig Wittgenstein was toxic. Yet, there are so many other important thinkers who will make you want to stick your fingers into your eyes like Slipknot. Poe, Baudelaire, and Tolkien are among the authors that metallers reference most.
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