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| Author: | Darren O. Godfrey [ Fri Aug 16, 2013 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Preface to Apathetic Flesh (the collection) |
The following is the preface for Apathetic Flesh, a collection that was slated for publication a few years ago. (Oblivion Press, the publisher, fell into oblivion, alas.) It was to follow Kealan Patrick Burke's introduction. PREFACE It is not wrong to expect apathy in ancient flesh; gone to dust, its concerns an antique memory. Ditto, lifeless tissue of the fairly recent type: sliding wetly from bone, the notions of love and caring stolen from its character; or, still tenable enough to ride the skeletons of the walking dead, its purpose turned toward paranormal feeding functions. And not so wrong, as well, to expect a certain degree of indifference in living yet diseased flesh, its lack of feeling an addendum to a long and debilitating illness. But what of nourished, lucid, even supple flesh? How are we expected to react to flesh that is warm and youthful…and yet infused with a corrupt spirit, a soulless black spark, a lack of any real feeling? Such flesh, too many have learned, will not heed the demands of concern. It will, through time, harden and become insolent. And when faced with close human interaction, it will not caress, but molest… …not comfort, but condemn… …not rise in excited gooseflesh, but grow ashen in cold depravity. It will not be awed by the greatness of being, but remain…odd to the touch. There are men, women and children walking these pages whose flesh rides their bones in various stages of apathy, empathy, sympathy, and gaping insanity. Many find themselves lost and alone, inhabiting a flesh-laden yet dispassionate world. For some, this is justice. A kind of payback, perhaps. For a few, it is a tragedy. |
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