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Sep. 3rd, 2005 07:52 pmComing to the end of Daemonomania and hence of Crowley's published work to date. Earlier I compared the weirdest Love and Sleep moment to the weirdest Cerebus moment and have now noticed a genuinely uncanny parellel: at about the same point in their absurdly long projects (started around the same time, ending around the same time) both Crowley and Dave Sim send themselves into their works to tell their respective main characters to, like, do something. Crowley's effigy even admits to having trouble pulling the book together--I don't think Sim did that but it was pretty clear at the time. In hindsight there's broadly similar concepts, movements in the first Aegypt volume and the Mothers and Daughters sequence preceding dread #186. Both are astonishing buildups, probably aesthetically superior to the regions they debouch into (a mad sky indeed, in Sim's case). I have something to tell you, something is coming, see as things become unglued before it, find it chase it fly into it until it flies into you: they have it, or think they do which is the same thing. And then lose it.
Crowley at least planned to lose it, but puts an awful lot on the shoulders of his future (current) self by promising to show how to bring and keep it back--in Endless Things. References to Little, Big--nostalgic?--usually wordplayings on its title, have been frequent in these two middle volumes; at times he seems to be almost rewriting sections, then shies away. Little, Big ended rather crazily, it took me a while to make full sense of where it had gone. I have a hunch it will reread quite well. But I'm not sure if that sort of ending will work here, assuming he still knows how to get back to that part of the forest. He knows so much, maybe more than any of the rest of us, certainly more than Sim, but it seems like he knew even more once.
I wonder how Cerebus ended? I dropped off for good around 225/300, Sim's barely tolerable mirror-image Andrea Dworkin phase was dovetailing into his entirely intolerable OT prophet one.
Crowley at least planned to lose it, but puts an awful lot on the shoulders of his future (current) self by promising to show how to bring and keep it back--in Endless Things. References to Little, Big--nostalgic?--usually wordplayings on its title, have been frequent in these two middle volumes; at times he seems to be almost rewriting sections, then shies away. Little, Big ended rather crazily, it took me a while to make full sense of where it had gone. I have a hunch it will reread quite well. But I'm not sure if that sort of ending will work here, assuming he still knows how to get back to that part of the forest. He knows so much, maybe more than any of the rest of us, certainly more than Sim, but it seems like he knew even more once.
I wonder how Cerebus ended? I dropped off for good around 225/300, Sim's barely tolerable mirror-image Andrea Dworkin phase was dovetailing into his entirely intolerable OT prophet one.
