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Episode 332 – Shadow & Silence (Patreon)

Published:
2016-11-18 10:06:00
Edited:
2025-05-18 19:14:52
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2026-06
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Airdate: 11/18/2016

POE-vember gets POE-etic as we tackle Shadow – a Parable and Silence – a Fable.

Special thanks to our reader, Wyatt S. Gray – check him out on Twitter!

Next Up: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar!

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G. Gorgo

The opening of "Shadow" is reminiscent of the opening of "Nyarlathotep," or perhaps vice-versa.

Moonflight Dancer

So Shadow is about realizing there is nothing waiting for you beyond death and Silence is about realizing there is no god. The demon tries to frighten the godly man with beasts (hippopotamus) and nature (storms), but it is silence that finally breaks the man. He is able to stomach the horrific surroundings, the impossible river, the loathsome flora, but when faced with the possibility of being alone in the universe, he comes to bits. This is why the demon laughs, he is laughing at the joke that mankind plays on itself, we fetishize our loneliness, we cling to misanthropy as the godly man did, thinking we are too intellectual for the masses. But when faced with the possibility that there is no greater meaning to our lives, we flee from solitude, we drown our terror with the company of others. And that is why the man does not laugh at the demon, he knows the terror that all humanity knows; the terror of true solitude. But the lynx does not fear the demon, it does not fear loneliness, it does not require purpose, being part of nature. It is the beasts that are lucky, and us who are condemned with intelligence.