The Nightmare Factory
“And only this condition of vicious insight allows us a full grasp of the world, all things considered, just as a frigid melancholy grants us full possession of ourselves.We may hide from horror only in the heart of horror.Could I be so unique among dreamers, having courted the Medusa—my first and oldest companion—to the exclusion of all others? Would I have her respond to this sweet talk?Relieved to have these fragments safely on the page rather than in some precarious mental notebook, where th...ey were likely to become smudged or altogether effaced, Dregler slipped into an old overcoat, locked the door of his room behind him, and exited down a series of staircases at the back of his apartment building. An angular pattern of streets and alleys was his usual route to a certain place he now and then visited, though for time’s sake—in order to waste it, that is—he chose to stray from his course at several points. He was meeting an acquaintance he had not seen in quite a while.The place was very dark, though no more than in past experience, and much more populated than it first appeared to Dregler’s eyes.MoreLess
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