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2026-07-23 05:48 UTC
Pan is really quite terrifying and all the imagery of fauns and satyrs and ægipans and Maenads frolicking in the woods together is like the foam on the seashore of a very treacherous sea, or like the carnival atmosphere which exists on the fringes of Walpurgisnacht in Madoka Magica. They're a liminal thing and a warning—shattering and mind-melting energies are just ahead.
Yet Crombie apparently describes having these full-sensorium interactions with these beings in a way that sounds both far too linear and too safe and tame, as if Crombie were merely stepping into a children's fairy-book. That's quite worrying, and it's worrying that André Gregory is into it.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-23 05:54
For you see, in My Dinner with André, André Gregory describes his own extreme lapses into unreality and they have a similar strange character. Visions that ought to be terrifying, he describes as whimsical and comforting. You remember how Maenads and satyrs and Dionysos come rollicking through #Narnia, having a grand fun time breaking a bridge over a river, and it's kinda cool I guess (and I do respect and revere the Lord Bromios, very much, not the least because the great god Dionysos has helped me with my drinking habit) but it's way way too tame and twee. It doesn't help that Aslan is there, presumably making it all safe. Jesus as a lion. Would he be safe? (cont'd)