![]() ![]() Cooties – intellectual cooties and physical cooties from other people – are crawling all around us and all over us at all times.” We live in a world where every surface, every opinion or passion, everything altogether is tainted by the bodies and minds of strangers. All ideas are old and withered before they ever get to us: “Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next. One suspects a limitation with the genre but given Ligotti’s following, that doesn’t seem to matter.Īccording to Ligotti, we merely ‘rent’ ideas - a thoughtful and useful metaphor. And what’s ‘in here’ is totally arbitrary, including, of course, the absence of meaning. We are prone to create meaning out of thin air, as it were. Our instinct is to fight against this, to supply explanations or additions to Ligotti’s prose. The meaning of these stories is that there is no meaning. But, upon finding any, do try to restrain your enthusiasm. ![]()
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