Quoting Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> You forgot to mention the makeup that makes them look pale :-)
True. As far as the term "Goth" goes, it appears to be derived from "Gothic"
used to describe a sort of gloomy horror genre popular during the nineteenth
century, which produced "Einstein's Monster" among other more forgettable
works...
Michael Moorcock made the whole subculture a figure of fun in the form of
"Dancers at the End of Time"'s Werther de Goethe, who declared himself to
Elric of Melnibone thus:
"You are very welcome here," said Werther de Goethe. "I cannot tell you how
glad I am to meet one as essentially morbid and self-pitying as myself!"
Of course, the actual Goths, the tribe/s that erupted from Gotland into the
otherwise comfortable and hopelessly corrupt Roman Empire during the fourth
century - apart from creating, together with their distant Burgundian and
Langobardian kin, some tales of the horror deriving from mixed loyalties and
obligations and unbridled lust for power - they seem to have been as
cheerfully sane as anybody else.
But that is of course OffTopic. Now we return to our customary
programme ... ;)
Wesley Parish
>
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"Sharpened hands are happy hands.
"Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands"
- A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge
"I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!"
I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the
other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
