Default User wrote:
Lynn McGuire wrote:
"The Best Dark Science Fiction Books" by Dan Livingston
It's one for me:
"I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison
I tend not to read that sort of thing.
Although Horror as a genre isn't actively sought out by me, four sfnal
horror stories serendipitously stumbled upon are savored.
"No Mouth" ranks as the most horrific of the lot because it's a
carnival of side-shows: peeping Tom maniacal mainframe, mass murder, mutilation, dystopia, nymphomania - you name it. There's too many
distractions to focus on its element of horror. Nonetheless,
"No Mouth" is correctly set in a scary sunless sprawl full of secrets
as it offers up twisted spectacle.
The remaining, more traditional, trio of tales known to me are:
_The Haunting_ (Jackson), "In the Stillness Between the Stars" (Rivera),
and PR74 "Das Grauen" (Voltz).
On another note, large libraries also possess potential in the form
of a suitably scary setting. But Borges, AKA "der Bibliotheksmeister,"
refrains from blatant horror in his stories.
How many words are there in the German language?
More than most people might think. German learners know
how quickly two nouns can be combined to form a new word.
That makes counting difficult. In 2013 linguists in Berlin
arrived at a total of 5.3 million German words. In 2017
the editors of the Duden dictionary of the German language
arrived at a total of almost 23 million words (in the basic
form only). The basis for the calculations is a huge
databank collecte from a pool of factual and literary texts
in the equivalent of 40,000 books. But the latest edition
of Duden gets along with 145,000 keywords. And the average
speaker uses only 12,000 to 16,000 words in their vocabulary.
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