rip septimus smith and gideon nav, y’all had one big thing in common which is surprising but maybe not that surprising
WAIT. in Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway there is a reference to the book of Ruth immediately after Septimus commits suicide by way of pointy fence. which he does in order to escape someone who is, like, pursuing him. in a manner of speaking. UMMMM
imagine ur doing 90 in a 55, ur water just broke, u arent even trying to get to the hospital about it youre trying to get away from your ex man (who is also your girl) who is also the fucking traffic cop trying to arrest you for speeding and also some unrelated stuff (the only reason he hasnt called a full on car chase is because he thinks you’re pregnant with his kid) (its not his kid, you specifically picked his boss as your sperm donor to make said boss’s life hell) and you have a pretty good idea about what the last couple hours of commander wake’s life was like
as a genre, the gothic tends to externalize the internal world to the point that unconscious desires impose themselves on the diegetic landscape. popular settings include isolated castles, haunted mansions, and hidden passages. it is characterized by an atmosphere of fear, haunting, supernatural threats, and things that were once known but long forgotten. to what extent can gideon the ninth and harrow the ninth be considered gothic literature? discuss in small groups of 3-4.
