The cover image alone is worth at least one-thousand wizard credits.
Let’s talk about it over a bottle of red.
Afterwards, we’ll sit on the sea shore and talk some more.
You look like heaven in your dress, leather ribbon round your middle. A circlet of gold in your hair.
Would it be possible to see you this evening in the Great Pyramid? Just the two of us and thirteen candles.
We’ll build a fire and play some music. You can tell me about your first joys in life. What are your dreams? Vanilla and/or chocolate? What’s your favorite flower?
Your smile rules the realm. Checkpoint reached.
The King in Yellow. I don’t know what to make of it, except to say it’s prophecy. A special code for lovers. We speak in idioms. The symbolism is getting loathsome. How bout I just tell you, straight up, no idioms or symbolism: YOU are IRRESISTIBLE!
Quaff the frothy tips from a carpenter’s cup.
Crazy coincidences,
Freaky-friday feeling,
Just from knowing the other exists!
Great collection of falconry terms. A falcon that attacks from above is called a “noble” bird. Whereas, a falcon that attacks from ground is ‘ignoble’.
How to turn Muse into Lover. How to turn marble statue into Flesh and Blood. The King in Yellow. 
Tractate Middoth. The money is hidden in a Hebrew book. Your woman is heir to a great fortune. It was totally worth it. Even your mother-in-law is manageable. Tractate Middoth
P.’s Correspondence. The old men are old. Their ideas have long since passed. It’s best to consume yourself in battle. Go down with the ship like a good captain. No country for old men. P.’s Correspondence.
The Inmost Light. Mr. Black, being of occult practice, captures his wife’s soul in opal flame. The exact seance cannot be detailed. The beautiful wife of Mr. Black is trapped in the tessellating beams of a jewel. The Inmost Light.
I hope this romance never ends.
The White People. Your nursemaid tells many fantastic stories and does the strangest things. When walking through a garden forest, your nursemaid can summon fairies, and dance with fauns living in the woods.
You thought it was fanciful memories from your childhood.
Your nursemaid’s stories could never be true?
Then, one day, by accident, you summon the white fairy, and realize with surprise and a little horror, that all the stories your nursemaid told were TRUE! The White People.
The Birthmark. He wanted to take your character. He wanted you for himself. He gave you the elixir of death in the guise of life. Dr. Fuckface is an asshole. The Birthmark.
For Art’s Sake. Brother Charlie is a pusillanimous moron. Annihilated by lies and photography. Queer culture is a pogram. Burgess Martin’s queer culture is a paid advertisement.
His sexuality is a commercial.
Get real. For Art’s Sake.
BTW: I’ve always despised horror. I found all of these stories extremely gratifying. Thank you Osie Turner for compiling this horrific book.
The Devil in Manuscript. The King in Yellow. Edited by Osie Turner Book Review.
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The Devil in Manuscript And Other Tales of Forbidden Books by Osie Turner & Arthur Machen & Algernon Blackwood & Nathaniel Hawthorne & Tod Robbins & M.R. James & Robert Chambers
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Highlight: There are many, I think, who eat dry crusts and drink water, with a joy infinitely sharper than anything within the experience of the ‘practical’ epicure.”
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Notes: fact check
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"In the taking of heaven by storm,
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Highlight: The saint endeavours to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
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Highlight: our higher senses are so blunted, we are so drenched with materialism, that we should probably fail to recognize real wickedness if we encountered it.”
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Highlight: Then there are the Ceremonies, which are all of them important, but some are more delightful than others—there are the White Ceremonies, and the Green Ceremonies, and the Scarlet Ceremonies. The Scarlet Ceremonies are the best,
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Notes: Special secret song. RHCP Uplift Mofo Party Plan
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Highlight: she was so lovely that everybody said that her eyes were greener than the emeralds, that her lips were redder than the ruby, that her skin was whiter than the diamonds, and that her hair was brighter than the golden crown.
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Highlight: And he went home and lived a long time, but he would never kiss any other lady because he had kissed the queen of the fairies, and he would never drink common wine anymore, because he had drunk enchanted wine.
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Highlight: often a delicious stream of thought would gush out upon the page at once, like water sparkling up suddenly in the desert;
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Highlight: Chicago, for a moment paralyzed after a second great fire, had risen from its ruins, white and imperial, and more beautiful than the white city which had been built for its plaything in 1893.
Notes: Worlds fair burn reference.
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Highlight: I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first act that it occurred to me that I had better stop. I started up and flung the book into the fireplace; the volume struck the barred grate and fell open on the hearth in the firelight. If I had not caught a glimpse of the opening words in the second act I should never have finished it, but as I stooped to pick it up, my eyes became riveted to the open page, and with a cry of terror, or perhaps it was of joy so poignant that I suffered in every nerve,
Notes: The King in Yellow
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Highlight: all felt that human nature could not bear the strain, nor thrive on words in which the essence of purest poison lurked.
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Highlight: His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.”‘
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Highlight: We are now in communication with ten thousand men,” he muttered. “We can count on one hundred thousand within the first twenty-eight hours, and in forty-eight hours the state will rise en masse. The country follows the state, and the portion that will not, I mean California and the Northwest, might better never have been inhabited. I shall not send
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Highlight: They were a fine lot of fellows, in their pale blue, tight-fitting jackets, jaunty busbies and white riding breeches with the double yellow stripe, into which their limbs seemed moulded.
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Notes: AI smartphone feedback modulation. UNBORN THOUGHTs.
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Highlight: I do not care to explain just yet what I have on hand, but it is an investment which will pay more than mere gold, silver and precious stones. It will secure the happiness and prosperity of a continent—yes, a hemisphere!
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Highlight: And all the time I kept repeating between my clenched teeth, “The day has come! the day has come!
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Highlight: See here, old fellow,” he began, “I’ve got something to suggest to you. It’s four years now that you’ve shut yourself up here like an owl, never going anywhere, never taking any healthy exercise, never doing a damn thing but poring over those books up there on the mantelpiece.”
Notes: The intercession.
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Highlight: I don’t care if the thing is, as they say, the very supreme essence of art. It’s a crime to have written it, and I for one shall never open its pages.
Notes: Forbidden text.
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Highlight: Geneviève lies before the Madonna in the marble room. The Madonna bends tenderly above her, and Geneviève smiles back into that calm face that never would have been except for her.
Notes: Marble statues from silica solution.
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“Have you found the Yellow Sign?”
“Have you found the Yellow Sign?”
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Highlight: midnight sounded from the misty spires in the fog-wrapped city.
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Highlight: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
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Highlight: Yes, I am ill at ease for love of you.” And as she did not stir nor answer, the same power moved my lips in spite of me and I said, “I, who am unworthy of the lightest of your thoughts, I who abuse hospitality and repay your gentle courtesy with bold presumption, I love you.
Notes: I love you.
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Notes: What do they say?
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Highlight: Now,” he thought, taking it up with a sudden violence to conceal his nervousness, “now for the great solution. Now to learn the meaning of the worlds, and why mankind was made, and why discipline is worthwhile, and sacrifice and pain the true law of advancement.
Notes: Stay tuned ladies and gentlemen.
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Notes: Pantomime.
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Notes: No country for old men.
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Notes: Self censorship.
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Highlight: But, to say the truth, a prodigiously fat man always impresses me as a kind of hobgoblin; in the very extravagance of his mortal system I find something akin to the immateriality of a ghost.
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Notes: Relating to or consisting of money.
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Notes: here lies the truth.
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Notes: Inspiration and action.
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Notes: I stand beside Eve in a garden. The ripest fruit within reach. We harvest the vine together.
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Notes: Vanish from scene.
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Notes: Literary or artistic assistant.
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Notes: Joel Barlow – Very difficult to find text.
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Notes: You are the spark!
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Notes: Nickname.
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Highlight: During that time, I prospered exceedingly. Each year brought me greater wealth, a larger circle of acquaintances, and more material luxuries of every kind. I had won the respect of a great many people who envied me my position in the world—people who little guessed what I had sacrificed in order to climb.
Notes: God bless.
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Notes: Good question.
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Notes: snake alert.
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