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I had to take a rest because, although the first couple stories are a good example of horror, the selection "Who Knows?" has a moment of such superb absurdity I'd expect to find it in a Treehouse of Horror episode as opposed to a collection of nightmare fuel recommendation by HP Lovecraft. (But there it is, in black and white, in a list of stories cited as good works of horror by Lovecraft in one of his essays.)

First story in this one was pretty bleech, not motivated to move on.

First story in this one was pretty bleech, not motivated to move on.

So far, he seems to enjoy bashing Marx.

Okay, he put the weaker ones first and the stronger ones after them as they go on. I've gotten to Hamid, who is writing some damned good stuff. Wait, can I say damned good about religious poetry?

Can't say I'm too impressed with Rahman, who is rather sedate and feels very much like reading Proverbs. I just started the section on Mirza Khan and his poetry is rather exciting. it's religious as well, but there's more "oomph" to it, so to speak.

I just finished the chapter on the Homeric Hymn as an example of propaganda between competing cults, but the stuff I liked best was the Hesiod chapter. He outlines Hesiod as the "first nostalgic reactionary of Western Civilization" and presents the misogyny-laden account of Pandora as Hesiod's complaint on modern culture (Also the Metis story), explaining why Hermes might've ended up in the "Satan" role there.