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Shamus

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2020.12.07 12:53

Excerpt from Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean.

I take to patrolling the corridors between the hours of three and four in the morning.

I visit the secret room often in order that I might keep my journal up to date.

Routine is important I think. A good routine diverts the mind from morbid imaginings..

Sometimes I am sure I hear hysterical laughter from a cell I know to be empty.

My movements through the house have become as formalized as ballet and I feel that I have become an essential part of some incomprehensible process.

The house is a living thing, hungry for madness.

It is the maze that dreams.

And I am lost.
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  • Miya 2020.12.07 13:00

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    wow, enjoy, your voice is is so charming😜
  • Aishwarya 2020.12.07 13:10

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    Your voice is amazing
  • Narjis 2020.12.07 13:30

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    Wow 👏👏
  • 小黄冲冲冲Ying 2020.12.07 13:31

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    I don’t understand the meaning of this work. What’s the metaphor of this work? How do you fee about it?
  • sofi 2020.12.07 14:33

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    Thank you
  • john 2020.12.07 15:32

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    Wow, thanks for sharing. That is some amazing writing from a place you’d never expect it. Little gems of words and meaning moving the visual art from frame to frame...(or vice versa?)
  • Shamus 2020.12.08 13:26

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    @Miya @Aishwarya @Narjis @sofi Thank you. ☺✨
  • Shamus 2020.12.08 13:29

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    @小黄冲冲冲Ying I don't want to spoil the story but this part happens after Amadeus Arkham has suffered some misfortune. He inherits a great mansion from his family and decides to turn it into an Asylum for the criminally insane. These portions I read are from his journal entries as he seemingly succumbs to madness himself.
  • Shamus 2020.12.08 13:32

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    @john Yep and it's especially interesting when you realise it's a collaborative effort between the writer and the artist. I had more pictures but the app was censoring them for some strange reason and this was my third attempt at posting it. This graphic novel has a very unique nightmarish aesthetic. It's worth searching more images of it online.
  • john 2020.12.08 15:48

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    @Shamus Are the images you included from the graphic novel? Haha I imagined something more in line with the Batman comics from my kid days (though I was wondering how the artist could fit so many words in the word balloon)
  • Shamus 2020.12.08 17:16

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    @john Haha. 😁, Yep, they are from the graphic novel.

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