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|  | "Forgotten" by John Di Rosa
« Thread Started on Dec 9, 2008, 7:47am » | ![[Quote]](http://s2.images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "Forgotten" by John Di Rosa, featured in Issue #9.
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If you haven't read the poem yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the text, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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| | Re: "Forgotten" by John Di Rosa
« Reply #1 on Dec 9, 2008, 4:01pm » | |
I think I remember reading somewhere in the sea of ancient posts that Di Rosa often writes his poems based on undisclosed supernatural premises--cuts out the exposition and explanation and just writes the ending.
Or I may be making something up.
In any case, I'm inclined to try a guess. I was inclined to think the narrator the ghost of an abandoned house. But mention of conversations and hunger would seem to rule that out. Unless the conversations are only supposed or imagined. I think there's a line of thought somewhere that says that all ghosts are delusional. Otherwise, they wouldn't stay.
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| | Re: "Forgotten" by John Di Rosa
« Reply #2 on Dec 9, 2008, 8:10pm » | |
Dec 9, 2008, 4:01pm, Hodgson wrote:| I think I remember reading somewhere in the sea of ancient posts that Di Rosa often writes his poems based on undisclosed supernatural premises--cuts out the exposition and explanation and just writes the ending. |
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| | Re: "Forgotten" by John Di Rosa
« Reply #3 on Dec 15, 2008, 3:11am » | |
I see this as a lost soul - a life once full of hope now 'forgotten' and abandoned. Perhpas the real horror here is not who, how or why but what the feeble will do when they starve... what happened to the cat?
Brilliant!
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