A many layered thing. So much to appreciate about this video, as is the case with all you produce. Feels good to escape into a Lower Silesian summertime during the depths of winter. Thanks as always for taking the time to create, document and share.
I live in Lower Silesia! (In Wrocław, but the smaller towns can be pretty charming too, Bystrzyca Kłodzka, former Habelschwerdt for instance despite it’s a little neglected). Thank you for visiting Silesia and for this interesting video. I’ve just added “Precious Bane” to my read list as I’m a huge fan of Hardy.
You do? That's amazing. That whole region is just so special. I looked up Bystrzyca Kłodzka - it looks gorgeous. I'll certainly visit next time. Really hope you enjoy Precious Bane - it ended up making it to my list of top books in 2023. :)
Hi Sherd, another beautiful and thought provoking video essay. At the moment I am reading ' In the dust of this planet ' by Eugene Thacker. Comes with a very positive ( not sure that's the right word) review on the back cover by Thomas Ligotti. Also very much enjoyed your video Ligotti and the Polish Avant-garde. Provided an interesting context with which to understand his work on a deeper level. Kind regards, Eliot
Thanks, Eliot! Really appreciate the kind words. I have that book at home, but haven't read it properly yet. Are you enjoying it? I have a cool idea for another Ligotti video - I hope it will be the next one out. :)
Hi Sam, very much looking forward to more Ligotti content. I am re-reading Eugene Thacker's Horror of Philosophy trilogy and enjoying it more second time around. Obviously feeling the need of that cosmic perspective. Probably as a consequence of my own horror at the state of absolutely everything. I find thinking of the limits of our ability to comprehend as Thacker puts it, the world, the earth, the planet and the cosmos, compelling and in place of horror I find myself looking back at it all as through the wrong end of a telescope. Kind regards Eliot
BBC-level production value. Your videos are interesting in that they feel spontaneous yet simultaneously, and obviously, very thought out. It's refreshing and thought provoking to come here, as your video essays are literary, yet elevated above the trope of only paraphrasing what scholars have written - doesn't feel like "content" at all.
That's such a compliment - thank you. I'm so glad it feels that way - it's just what I'm always hoping to achieve. A strange term, 'content', isn't it? It suggests that the form is prescribed, and that all anyone can do is fill it with stuff. Thanks so much for the enormously kind words!
Thanks for another great video! I'm looking forward to ordering some of the titles you recommended, especially THE INCONSOLABLES and LOLLY WILLOWES. Great stuff. Can't wait for the next one.
Great video! Would you be interested in doing a more biographical video? One that explains how you came to be teaching in Poland? How did you first get into literature? It would be great to hear more about your journey!
I'm currently reading Dhalgren. "Enjoying it" seems like the wrong phraseology, so I'll say I'm fascinated by it in a similar way that I was fascinated by A Clockwork Orange. Much of the action is grisly, some of it repulsive, but I can't wait to get back to it again and again.
Wehunt's new collection was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. His prose is often compared to Raymond Carver, and I tend to agree. The final story in the collection, however, will haunt me for very long time.
My comment is not showing, so I'm trying this again. Apologies if it's here multiple times. I'm late to the party, but: I'm currently rereading Wild Marjoram Tea by Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs. I first read it in late 2022, but I'm rereading it because I just started Old Children, also attributed to Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs, and about 40 pages in I realized there were connections. So, I thought I'd have a look at WMTea again, and the next thing I knew I was reading it. These are both from Broodcomb Press. Everything I've read from them is disturbing and compelling both. Unsettling is the word...
A many layered thing. So much to appreciate about this video, as is the case with all you produce. Feels good to escape into a Lower Silesian summertime during the depths of winter. Thanks as always for taking the time to create, document and share.
Thank you, Kevin! Really appreciate that. Glad I could help you escape the frost for a brief while. :)
Dreamy as always
I live in Lower Silesia! (In Wrocław, but the smaller towns can be pretty charming too, Bystrzyca Kłodzka, former Habelschwerdt for instance despite it’s a little neglected). Thank you for visiting Silesia and for this interesting video. I’ve just added “Precious Bane” to my read list as I’m a huge fan of Hardy.
You do? That's amazing. That whole region is just so special. I looked up Bystrzyca Kłodzka - it looks gorgeous. I'll certainly visit next time. Really hope you enjoy Precious Bane - it ended up making it to my list of top books in 2023. :)
Man, you have me impatient for new videos from you! Keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks so much. I'll do my best to keep making them. :)
Hi Sherd, another beautiful and thought provoking video essay. At the moment I am reading ' In the dust of this planet ' by Eugene Thacker. Comes with a very positive ( not sure that's the right word) review on the back cover by Thomas Ligotti. Also very much enjoyed your video Ligotti and the Polish Avant-garde. Provided an interesting context with which to understand his work on a deeper level.
Kind regards, Eliot
Thanks, Eliot! Really appreciate the kind words. I have that book at home, but haven't read it properly yet. Are you enjoying it? I have a cool idea for another Ligotti video - I hope it will be the next one out. :)
Oh, and you can call me Sam, by the way. :)
Hi Sam, very much looking forward to more Ligotti content. I am re-reading Eugene Thacker's Horror of Philosophy trilogy and enjoying it more second time around. Obviously feeling the need of that cosmic perspective. Probably as a consequence of my own horror at the state of absolutely everything. I find thinking of the limits of our ability to comprehend as Thacker puts it, the world, the earth, the planet and the cosmos, compelling and in place of horror I find myself looking back at it all as through the wrong end of a telescope.
Kind regards
Eliot
Another Ligotti video?! Nice! I love his writing. @@SherdsTube
BBC-level production value. Your videos are interesting in that they feel spontaneous yet simultaneously, and obviously, very thought out. It's refreshing and thought provoking to come here, as your video essays are literary, yet elevated above the trope of only paraphrasing what scholars have written - doesn't feel like "content" at all.
That's such a compliment - thank you. I'm so glad it feels that way - it's just what I'm always hoping to achieve. A strange term, 'content', isn't it? It suggests that the form is prescribed, and that all anyone can do is fill it with stuff.
Thanks so much for the enormously kind words!
That was great! There's so much in this video, it's a book discussion and a travelogue and also a sort of ambient exploration video.
Thanks so much for saying so. I really enjoy mixing in a little bit of travelogue when I have the opportunity.
Thanks for another great video! I'm looking forward to ordering some of the titles you recommended, especially THE INCONSOLABLES and LOLLY WILLOWES. Great stuff. Can't wait for the next one.
Thanks so much. I absolutely recommend both of those books. Hope you enjoy them. Thanks again.
Great video! Would you be interested in doing a more biographical video? One that explains how you came to be teaching in Poland? How did you first get into literature? It would be great to hear more about your journey!
Thanks so much. Hmm, perhaps at some point.
I'm currently reading Dhalgren. "Enjoying it" seems like the wrong phraseology, so I'll say I'm fascinated by it in a similar way that I was fascinated by A Clockwork Orange. Much of the action is grisly, some of it repulsive, but I can't wait to get back to it again and again.
Remarkable book. I read it very intensly during the pandemic - its listless atmosphere has really stayed with me.
This was wonderful! Question: do you travel by car? How do you get access to all that nature?
Funny, I was wondering the same thing. Eurail, perhaps?
By car, yes - I don't drive, but a friend was driving on this trip.
Wehunt's new collection was terrifying and beautiful at the same time. His prose is often compared to Raymond Carver, and I tend to agree. The final story in the collection, however, will haunt me for very long time.
Really glad to hear that you enjoyed it. I agree - that last story is just astonishing!
My comment is not showing, so I'm trying this again. Apologies if it's here multiple times.
I'm late to the party, but: I'm currently rereading Wild Marjoram Tea by Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs. I first read it in late 2022, but I'm rereading it because I just started Old Children, also attributed to Sylvia Littlegood-Briggs, and about 40 pages in I realized there were connections. So, I thought I'd have a look at WMTea again, and the next thing I knew I was reading it. These are both from Broodcomb Press. Everything I've read from them is disturbing and compelling both. Unsettling is the word...
I think it's just laziness to like the commentary more than the poem.. saves you the trouble of exegesis. :)