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Aeon
Esoteric secrets within a cement city. An unfinished bridge. Who is the Lion? Graffiti as prophecy. Weird Fiction as mystery.
38 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2015
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Jordan Krall
102 books259 followersBooks include:
TENTACLE DEATH TRIP
FISTFUL OF FEET
MOTEL MAN
KING SCRATCH
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE APOCALYPSE DONKEYS
PIECEMEAL JUNE
SQUID PULP BLUES
NEWLY SHAVEN SAINT
UNFRUITFUL WORKS
PRELUDE TO SPACE RAPE!
SQUID KILLS
THE PISTOL BURPS
ALL POEMS MUST DIE
FALSE MAGIC KINGDOM
BAD ALCHEMY
THE GOG AND MAGOG BUSINESS
YOUR CITIES, YOUR TOMBS
TENTACLE DEATH TRIP
FISTFUL OF FEET
MOTEL MAN
KING SCRATCH
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE APOCALYPSE DONKEYS
PIECEMEAL JUNE
SQUID PULP BLUES
NEWLY SHAVEN SAINT
UNFRUITFUL WORKS
PRELUDE TO SPACE RAPE!
SQUID KILLS
THE PISTOL BURPS
ALL POEMS MUST DIE
FALSE MAGIC KINGDOM
BAD ALCHEMY
THE GOG AND MAGOG BUSINESS
YOUR CITIES, YOUR TOMBS
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November 29, 2025
A slim volume from the maestro of 9/11 fanfiction.
This little oddity read like a lost segment from The Atrocity Exhibition.
This little oddity read like a lost segment from The Atrocity Exhibition.
July 7, 2020
(3.5 stars)
In 'Aeon', the bodies of once-prestigious persons appear at the site of an unfinished highway; revelatory initiations occur via hauntings and enigmatic graffiti in abandoned concrete structures; an infamous politician's attempt to resurrect his career ends in a 9\11-style attack which doubles as the engineered inauguration of a new age.
Now all of these sub-plots would merely amount to the usual political chicanery unless the reader acknowledges the spiritual menace which both drives and links these seemingly disparate events: a force known as the Lion. This force is sovereign in the truest sense, exceeding all who would attempt to contain and use its power; it gives fidelity to none, not even those deemed powerful and privileged: "Those bastards have been feeding the Lion for years now[....] It is inevitable now: the disintegration of[...]the political and civil machines[...]" (p. 21).
However, the undead Magistrate's monologues--almost Beckettian in their insane redundancy and inevitable futility--most vividly reveal a particularly dark and unique transformation of zeitgeist into poltergeist, possessing those in power to blindly fulfill the creation and destruction of civilization even as they are foolish enough to believe that their power is truly their own:
Imprisoned within the masonry, the person,[...] that person I have created and harbored, scratches at the walls in various scripts, sigils of inconsequential vulgarities, political slurs, carved in brittle stone layers[...] It is a literal stumbling block. (p. 28)
Remembering the Devil's association with "stumbling blocks" which both literally and figuratively connects with (free)masonry(?), Krall's careful word-play suggests an ominous correlation between manipulative political and social constructs, the madness of power and potentially demonic possession. Is not the Magistrate, even in his pathetically postmortem state, still possessed by the Lion to initiate those who would wander, whether by blind curiosity or self-aware unction, into those abandoned concrete structures?
Though 'Aeon' is a much shorter work than 'Gorgonaeon', it uses the same mosaic narrative approach, composed of nonlinear yet thoughtfully cross-referenced passages, to create an apocalyptic atmosphere of a city caught in a zodiacal age-shift (it is worth noting that, from the esoteric view of the zodiac, we are in the Age of Leo; a point which Krall could very well be aware of). Now if only he would write a chapbook mythologizing the world's current crisis which has the paradoxical character of being both more immediately boring yet more broadly fatal than the events of 9/11...
In 'Aeon', the bodies of once-prestigious persons appear at the site of an unfinished highway; revelatory initiations occur via hauntings and enigmatic graffiti in abandoned concrete structures; an infamous politician's attempt to resurrect his career ends in a 9\11-style attack which doubles as the engineered inauguration of a new age.
Now all of these sub-plots would merely amount to the usual political chicanery unless the reader acknowledges the spiritual menace which both drives and links these seemingly disparate events: a force known as the Lion. This force is sovereign in the truest sense, exceeding all who would attempt to contain and use its power; it gives fidelity to none, not even those deemed powerful and privileged: "Those bastards have been feeding the Lion for years now[....] It is inevitable now: the disintegration of[...]the political and civil machines[...]" (p. 21).
However, the undead Magistrate's monologues--almost Beckettian in their insane redundancy and inevitable futility--most vividly reveal a particularly dark and unique transformation of zeitgeist into poltergeist, possessing those in power to blindly fulfill the creation and destruction of civilization even as they are foolish enough to believe that their power is truly their own:
Imprisoned within the masonry, the person,[...] that person I have created and harbored, scratches at the walls in various scripts, sigils of inconsequential vulgarities, political slurs, carved in brittle stone layers[...] It is a literal stumbling block. (p. 28)
Remembering the Devil's association with "stumbling blocks" which both literally and figuratively connects with (free)masonry(?), Krall's careful word-play suggests an ominous correlation between manipulative political and social constructs, the madness of power and potentially demonic possession. Is not the Magistrate, even in his pathetically postmortem state, still possessed by the Lion to initiate those who would wander, whether by blind curiosity or self-aware unction, into those abandoned concrete structures?
Though 'Aeon' is a much shorter work than 'Gorgonaeon', it uses the same mosaic narrative approach, composed of nonlinear yet thoughtfully cross-referenced passages, to create an apocalyptic atmosphere of a city caught in a zodiacal age-shift (it is worth noting that, from the esoteric view of the zodiac, we are in the Age of Leo; a point which Krall could very well be aware of). Now if only he would write a chapbook mythologizing the world's current crisis which has the paradoxical character of being both more immediately boring yet more broadly fatal than the events of 9/11...
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