linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome
Found this today while researching urban legends about phone numbers. This is delightfully creepy and I'll be very disappointed if none of my writer friends ever sneak some of these into a horror novel or something..
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/audio/harvard.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_sentences
https://gizmodo.com/the-harvard-sentences-secretly-shaped-the-development-1689793568
(tl;dr: it's a carefully formulated series of phonetically balanced phrases for use in testing phones; out of context, most of them are rather creepy in a way that I find... pretty awesome, honestly, this is my kind of horror)
linguistics; communication; esoterica; urban pseudo-occult; creepy; awesome
"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."
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@Phorm Incidentally, I snagged S3 and immediately skipped straight to E8. This is EXACTLY the kind of nightmare I wanted, thank you. <3 God, this is perfect surrealist horror and I need to get into an Over The Edge campaign with a competent GM as soon as humanly possible, because that's the single closest thing to a Twin Peaks RPG.
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@zebratron2084
I'm so glad you're enjoying it! S3E8 is actually a super great place to jump in, given it's disconnected narrative. If you're liking that, you might enjoy the way the whole season begins.
There's bit of a slow pace throughout the whole thing, but there's plenty MORE surrealism than Twin Peaks had in S1 or S2. Let's just say if the series started out this way, it never would have gotten mainstream traction (and I say that as a positive thing).