Vastarien, Literary Journal: Vol. 4 No. 2
PART TWO OF THIS REVIEW CONTINUED FROM HERE
PART TWO OF THIS REVIEW CONTINUED FROM HERE
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Work by
Romana Lockwood, Hailey Piper, Michael Uhall, Carson Winter, Philippa Evans, Mari Ness, Christi Nogle, Gwen C. Katz, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Greg Sisco, Tori Fredrick, John Claude Smith, George Prekas, Juleigh Howard-Hobson, Georgia Cook, Sean M. Thompson, Joanna Parypinski, Rhonda Eikamp, Christa Carmen, S. L. Edwards, LC von Hessen, Sara Tantlinger, Perry Ruhland, Paul L. Bates, Jenny Darmody, Mari Ness, Emer O’Hanlon, Dejan Ognjanović, Clint Smith, Ivy Grimes, Kurt Fawver.
A Walkthrough of Route X: Video Games and the Postmodern Gothic
By Joanna Parypinski
“Now that awful sameness is suffused with a horror at these subtle differences.”
On the frighteningly precarious interface of fiction and non-fiction, I made a walkthrough through this text and became someone else’s walkthrough. And my real-time review of it is thus not as adept as it would have been — but I am still ‘me’ enough to suggest this text may be a genuine classic work of Penrose stairs and Kaplan ‘brevities of flash’, a work that far outdoes even HOUSE Of Leaves by becoming a bijou typographical anomaly in return for at least a part of your body. A classic work in the Horror genre by paradoxical means of bastardising me (and, by extension, any other reader) within an environment where I am now sitting writing a different real-time review of it from the one I otherwise should have written. Who wrote this third one is a different question. But X having four visibly diagonal routes from its centre is now the most frightening thought of all.
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