Talk:Apparition/@comment-7706473-20140512103912

First - for a non-Cormorant song, this is BLOWING ME AWAY. I know what I'm listening to at work, so thanks for that! I really should mine your musical sites, sometime...

Foremost, however, were the ways you managed to keep everything somehow feeling innocent and pastoral even as the story rapidly escalated into something horribly unhinged. Though I couldn't help but feel as the last lock fell to the wayside that the sacrificies might have yet been for a greater glory, the means with which the locks were opened was barbarous and cruel, but such is the manner of things. (I actually misread/somehow reversed the idea of the farmer seeing the angel becoming horrifying and thought of it as more beautiful, then, and liked that interpretation even though it alienated the best part of the story!)

And that best part I just mentioned was the end. It was fantastic, because despite who ruined the father is at the loss of everything, his horrible butchery simply from a sense of zealotry and devotion; some part of him feels a joy through work, even after all of that. The apparition must find itself laughing, even as it turns the prodigial into something no longer recognizable. Prairie heathers, awaiting the destruction of the gate and the shifting of the sky.