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22. “The Consolations of Horror,”<br />

s. xxi.<br />

selv sproget bliver en del af det system, der ikke på<br />

nogen måde kan bekæmpes – meddelelsen er ligeså futil som<br />

modstanden. Fortællingerne fastfryser rædslen, men udvirker<br />

ingen ændring. alligevel er meddelelsesbehovet udtalt. om<br />

sit eget meddelelsesbehov – om hvorfor han skriver horror –<br />

bemærker Ligotti:<br />

Just to do it, that’s all. Just to see how much unmitigated<br />

weirdness, sorrow, desolation, and cosmic anxiety<br />

the human heart can take and still have enough heart<br />

left over to translate these agonies into artistic forms<br />

[...].<br />

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation:<br />

simply that someone shares some of your own feelings<br />

and has made these a work of art which you have the<br />

insight, sensitivity, and – like it or not – peculiar set of<br />

experiences to appreciate. 22<br />

Trøsten, Ligotti nævner, begrænser sig til en erkendelse af et<br />

system, der unddrager sig forståelse, en erkendelse, vi havde<br />

været lykkeligere foruden, samt en mulighed for at dele den<br />

med andre. Hvad end vi gør, ender vi alligevel i en radikal<br />

intethed. Men meddelelsen synes at have en vis terapeutisk<br />

værdi: Fortællerne er oppe mod et altomfattende system, hvor<br />

de ingen magt har over deres egen skæbne. Men gennem den<br />

tekstlige fremstilling af firmamonsteret – og det system der<br />

omgiver dem – kan de definere den virkelighed som firmaet<br />

suverænt definerer. de kan med andre ord få herredømmet<br />

igen.<br />

styrken i firmahorroren er fiktionens konstante insisteren<br />

på den ubehagelige sandhed, der helst burde glemmes,<br />

en ’horrorisering’ af det at være til. Firmahorrorens negation<br />

af livet tillader os, for en kort stund, at mene at vi lever i den<br />

værste af alle mulige verdener, der dog altid har et potentiale<br />

for at blive endnu værre.<br />

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