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▲ 246 r/TheDarkTower

"All is silent in the halls of the dead. All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. Behold the stairways which stand in darkness; behold the rooms of ruin. These are the halls of the dead where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one."

This passage from The Waste Lands is remarkable. I find it quite haunting. The lines come to Eddie, unbidden, as though he's remembering something he once read. The prosody is somewhat unwieldy, but the lines are distinct enough that you feel compelled to look up what King is quoting, and it takes you a few minutes to admit that he's not quoting anything--it's presented like that, but King wrote it.

Typically for King, bless him, there's one nonsensical bit: you can't quite behold something that stands in darkness.

Beautifully creepy stuff for all that.

Do you have a favorite passage that stands out to you because of the style more than what it means to the plot?

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u/Ok_Employer7837 — 2 days ago
▲ 8 r/classicalmusic

A superb performance of Mendelssohn's Piano trio No. 1

By ATOS Trio.

It's hysterical just how upfront Mendelssohn was with his themes. Other composers noodle around for minutes on end, coyly teasing the phrase everyone wants to hear, but Mendelssohn's MO is like:

Bar one: SO I HAD THIS IDEA

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u/Ok_Employer7837 — 8 days ago