May 31, 2016

First, Gnon, Nick Land’s horror-God of immanent reality, representing the awful truths to which neoreaction is supposedly the only possible response.

But as Land admits, the name is specifically a stand-in – a compromise to forestall the tedious debate over Gnon’s identity. But what is the erased name that Gnon stands in place of? And what might this beast be trying to hide by making its name forbidden? The answer is obvious with just a bit of inspection.

Crisis averted. It was just a silly puppet all along.

Elizabeth Sandifer

Elizabeth Sandifer created Eruditorum Press. She’s not really sure why she did that, and she apologizes for the inconvenience. She currently writes Last War in Albion, a history of the magical war between Alan Moore and Grant Morrison. She used to write TARDIS Eruditorum, a history of Britain told through the lens of a ropey sci-fi series. She also wrote Neoreaction a Basilisk, writes comics these days, and has ADHD so will probably just randomly write some other shit sooner or later. Support Elizabeth on Patreon.

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18 Comments

Yossarianduck
May 31, 2016 @ 1:58 am

Worth. Every. Cent.

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James Wylder
May 31, 2016 @ 2:38 am

And for a moment, I was at peace.

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John Biles
May 31, 2016 @ 3:53 am

I don’t get it, though it rather reminds me of a captcha thing.

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- Metal Fatigue
  May 31, 2016 @ 4:24 am
  
  Glycon.
  
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Ahilan
May 31, 2016 @ 4:21 am

How will this work

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- Elizabeth Sandifer
  May 31, 2016 @ 4:30 am
  
  In what sense?
  
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- Froborr
  May 31, 2016 @ 4:34 am
  
  “This ritual renders the alt-right ridiculous.”
  
  “But the alt-right has always been ridiculous!”
  
  “See how well it works?”
  
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  - Cuck Tingle
    May 31, 2016 @ 6:43 am
    
    Wow, it even works backwards in time!
    
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- Kate
  May 31, 2016 @ 8:53 am
  
  Nobody tell them.
  
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Devin
May 31, 2016 @ 4:49 am

If only every day could be as magical as today.

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WordCubed
May 31, 2016 @ 4:50 am

Maybe the real magic is the book we kickstarted along the way.

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- Giddeon
  May 31, 2016 @ 7:47 am
  
  Turns out the book was inside all of us the whole time!
  
  It’s going to require a lot of painful surgeries to remove, too!
  
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  - David Gerard
    May 31, 2016 @ 8:32 am
    
    The way to a man’s heart is through his chest, and so’s the way back out again.
    
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Kate
May 31, 2016 @ 8:51 am

In Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, William Foxwell Albright writes: “For instance, it can be shown conclusively that the so-called goddess Sha’taqat is a figment of the imagination; the supposed name is a finite verb.” Glycon the muppet and Sha’taqat the typo: we have to get these two together.

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Auntyjack
May 31, 2016 @ 11:30 am

Glycon is another name for Mara

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- Marafnord
  May 31, 2016 @ 1:20 pm
  
  Damn. Well, consider my eschaton immanentized.
  
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bombasticus
May 31, 2016 @ 11:47 am

Hey, mostly ones and zeros!

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Auntyjack
May 31, 2016 @ 9:08 pm

Just surround it with mirrors – you’ll be fine

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