The Curse of Millhaven
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, “The Curse of Millhaven”
Happy Halloween, Everyone!
October 2010
“A moment comes where suddenly everything seems impossibly far and confused, my sense of self derealized & depersonalized, the disorientation so severe I actually believe—and let me tell you it is an intensely strange instance of belief—that this terrible sense of relatedness to Zampano’s work implies something that just can’t be, namely that this thing has created me; not me unto it, but now it unto me, where I am nothing more than the matter of some other voice, intruding through the folds of what even now lies there agape, possessing me with histories I should never recognize as my own.”
—Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
“It was one of those nights when the moon gives a faint glimmering of light through the thick black clouds of a lowering sky. Now and then she suddenly emerged in full splendor from her veil; and then instantly retired behind it, having just served to give the forlorn Sir Bertand a wide extended prospect over the desolate waste.”
—Anna Laetitia Aikin, “Sir Bertand: A Fragment”
“In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.”
—Walter Pater, Studies in the History of the Renaissance
