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7/15/2025, 7:36:23 PM
>>24551063
I have some imitation pork, and also Chapter X of Jude the Obscure where they butcher a pig, except I hate Jude the Obscure.
>However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. The blood flowed out in a torrent instead of in the trickling stream she had desired. The dying animal’s cry assumed its third and final tone, the shriek of agony; his glazing eyes riveting themselves on Arabella with the eloquently keen reproach of a creature recognizing at last the treachery of those who had seemed his only friends.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/153/pg153-images.html#chap10
>>24551662
>>24551686
>>24551706
Nice. House on the Borderland also deserves a second mention >>24551345, since I think the pig-ness of the monsters is significant in making them uncanny; pigs have an abhuman characteristic that's different from primates in how unlike us they are and how little they care.
I have some imitation pork, and also Chapter X of Jude the Obscure where they butcher a pig, except I hate Jude the Obscure.
>However unworkmanlike the deed, it had been mercifully done. The blood flowed out in a torrent instead of in the trickling stream she had desired. The dying animal’s cry assumed its third and final tone, the shriek of agony; his glazing eyes riveting themselves on Arabella with the eloquently keen reproach of a creature recognizing at last the treachery of those who had seemed his only friends.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/153/pg153-images.html#chap10
>>24551662
>>24551686
>>24551706
Nice. House on the Borderland also deserves a second mention >>24551345, since I think the pig-ness of the monsters is significant in making them uncanny; pigs have an abhuman characteristic that's different from primates in how unlike us they are and how little they care.
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