The Stone Tapes
Most if our modern technology depends upon the idea
of recording sound and images, and transmitting sound and images,
through a medium, and there's no difference between that
and the storage and transmission of events years
later than they either happened or, mark this,
were thought, by someone else.
Or racked by some great emotion, transfixed the pain or joy to stone or brick.
I don't see why it should be difficult to record a story
that we imagine, so that we can bring it back to life,
over and over again, when we wish to, or we gain a receptive
audience. After all, that is what writers have been doing since they
were bards and oral story-tellers.
In the fabric of any building the hidden history of its inhabitants
might be recorded in more detail, but only a fragment can be
presented at any given time to a prospective audience.
In The Stone Tapes story something evil, infinitely darker,
lay hidden beneath the fragmentary haunting.
The secret of the house, which tells a fragmentary story,
is part of an underlying theme, which it might be better
not to know.
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