Genesis 4:1-5, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905
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Emanuel Krescenc Liška – Cain (1885)
Claus Westermann, Genesis : a commentary, 1984
Arthur Segal - Kain und Abel (1918)
A Clash of Kings, Prologue - Maester Cressen
Natalie Diaz, A Brother Named Gethsemane, from When My Brother Was an Aztec
Lovis Corinth - Kain (1917)
Genesis 4:6-9, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905
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Odilion Redon - Cain and Abel (1886)
A Clash of Kings, Chapter 33 - Catelyn IV
Genesis 4:9-14, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905
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St. Omer, Benedictine Abbey of St. Bertin; c. 1190-1200
A Storm of Swords, Chapter 36 - Davos V
S.R. Driver, The Book of Genesis, 1905
A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42 - Davos II
Lazzaro Pisani - Death of Abel (1885)
S.R. Driver, The Book of Genesis, 1905
A Clash of Kings, Chapter 42 - Davos II
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Cain and Abel - City of Zeven - 2015 (source)
Genesis 4:14-16, translated by S. R. Driver, from The Book of Genesis, 1905
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i've ported my spatial horror reclist to notion to make it easier to sort and filter! everything is arranged by type, subtype, and a key describing what kind of hauntings are present in the work, and you can filter by any of those things.
check out the list here, and feel free to send me more recs for it!
edit 10/20/2022: if you've sent me a recommendation and i haven't replied to it, don't worry! i like to wait until i have time to check out whatever media's been recommended myself to respond/add it to the list, and i've been swamped with deadlines lately, but i prommy i'm not ignoring y'all <3
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“Anna’s hysteria, the creature, the doppelgangers – all suggest a purification process that leads to a higher state of being akin to divinity. The awful other, when we grapple with it, can turn out to be not demonic, but gracious. “Do you believe in God?” she asks Marc. “It’s in me!” Though the word ‘God’ is thrown around a lot in the latter half of the film, conventional religion – at least in any contemporary sense – is a far cry from the grotesquerie of the creature. Instead, Anna’s relationship to divinity is based upon those non-rational elements that informed religion in earlier times – the mysterious, the uncanny, the awesome and terrifying. Just before the subway incident she visits a church, and as she cries out to the crucified figure above her, it lays silent and stationary and does not answer her whimpering pleas. It resists her projections of weakness, fragility, hopes, fears and fantasies. She is left to create her own idol, which becomes a thing both beauteous and monstrous.”
Kier-La Janisse, House of Psychotic Women
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Portable People
Muriel: "Can I...Can I take a book with me? I was looking at one earlier. They're like people, only portable." S2E6
Crowley's yeeting them around while stress-cleaning the bookshop, Jimbriel is trying to sell them to the investigating archangels, and Muriel just wants to read them all. Should we give a second thought to any of these books?
Er, yes. Yes, we should, I say.
In Crowley's case, both times he tosses the books aside (both in S2E3) it is adjacent to a conversation about memory.
In the first one he remarks to Jim that he doesn't remember why "they" invented gravity. He tosses the books - records of the past, records of (human) knowledge - then moves right back into the present, observing Rodney the Stunt Fly with Jim and then describing his Operation Lovebirds plan to him.
The same with the second GIF - Crowley has to make a decision between answering the phone (which is Aziraphale calling from Edinburgh) or the books. The present wins again, and he has the phone conversation with Aziraphale.
Crowley: Pffft. Humans. You don't let yourself get too attached.
Aziraphale: No. No, I suppose not. Um… You haven't actually been selling any of the books, have you?
While we get the impression of Crowley not wanting to hang on to the past, as if its something that's hurt him before and he doesn't want to repeat that, on the other hand Aziraphale was having a lovely time remembering Mr Dalrymple the Scottish surgeon from 1826. This from an angel who hates getting rid of memories books, and we learn keeps a diary! Hmm.
I suppose the question is, is it a real memory problem on Crowley's side or an affected one to get around certain...awkwardness to do with his history? Such as not remembering working with Saraqael or fighting next to Furfur before the Fall?
Jimbriel, on the other hand, is more like Muriel. He is having a wonderful time discovering the delights of Humanity in the bookshop for the first time and is sooo excited to show it to the archangels when they arrive on Aziraphale's doorstep!
[btw, do you notice which side Jimbriel is standing on here? Its actually interesting to pay attention to which shoulder-side he is on in S2, because he is rarely on the left - even in S1, as well]
So while Aziraphale tries to, um, explain what humans do, Jimbriel "fans" one in Saraqael's face and then tries to (horror!) kill Rodney the Stunt fly with the Wicked Bible - the one with the printing error that says "You Shall Commit Adultery." *ahem* (not looking at you Jimbriel, oh no, not all...) Good thing it never works, Jimbriel declares, as the dust flies dramatically.
Edit: This book-banging episode is also a Monty Python reference! I found out over in my Assistant Bookseller meta that Jim's Fair Isle's style vest is a nod the Gumby characters, who all wear that style of vest and have the catchphrase "My brain hurts!" They also bang bricks together occasionally. *sigh* The things you didn't expect to find...Gabriel the Gumby...
The angels take no notice of Jim's antics. Since when do they take any notice of what goes on with humans, anyway? Oh, yes, they are going to keep a close eye on Aziraphale, but some idiotic human - nah! Don't care!
Then there's this travesty:
Aaah! The horror! Aziraphale reluctantly lets Maggie and Nina throw the books of human knowledge at the demons. But that doesn't work in the long run. Only the angel himself can solve this crisis.
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