Because Nothing Rhymes With Daws

Today Patriot's Day is celebrated in New England.

I think that, especially in the present era, it is important to take today to reflect on what patriotism means, in terms of America, the modern nation, and modern politics.

It is commemorating the same event in the famous, if inaccurate, poem.

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On Horror

This is just a thought.

There is a school of horror that is all about squamous things from beyond space and time. It draws its horrific aspect from things that are totally alien to our experience. I'm thinking of Lovecraft, yup, but also others. It is about the alien. We might call it insulated horror.

Also, though, there is another school of horror, which takes the personal or everyday and turns it into a metaphor for something human and horrible that we cannot think about it directly. This is the horror that Polaris has, when it has horror. We might call this subversive horror.

I propose that subversive horror is really just superior. Thoughts?