Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2018 21:29:42 GMT -5
“A phenomenon that a number of people have noted while in deep depression is the sense of being accompanied by a second self — a wraithlike observer who, not sharing the dementia of his double, is able to watch with dispassionate curiosity as his companion struggles against the oncoming disaster, or decides to embrace it. There is a theatrical quality about all this, and during the next several days, as I went about stolidly preparing for extinction, I couldn't shake off a sense of melodrama — a melodrama in which I, the victim-to-be of self-murder, was both the solitary actor and lone member of the audience.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
The Dark Brothers: Most men would sit and ponder this quote for hours even days without ever realizing it's true meaning. We don't need to sit and ponder as we know all so well the meaning behind this quotation. Kingsley Solomon, you are a man of mystery and of distinct curiosity. At least that is what you would like to lead people to believe, you bluff your way through life. But we are men of the darkness and we don't run from bluffs.
The candle flickers as the wind blows through the cracked window in the library of the old mansion as Michael Dark and his brother Victor Dark sit there going over business as they listen to "The Sound of Silence". Both of the brothers seem at ease as the darkness surrounds them comforting them like a warm quilt on a winters night. They continue to converse through a video message with their newest co-worker and next opponent. As Dark Horse will have its inaugural show in just a short period and it will determine the future of the company.
The Dark Brothers: Solomon, you see when people read or when they hear this specific quote they misinterpret it. They think either way too long about it and over analyze it or they do not think long or hard enough and look like a fool. Let me explain just a wee bit for you. When a person is having a severe breakdown or has severe depression as most like to call it when the darkness begins to overtake your soul. They begin to have their true self come to life, the version of themselves that they try to hide, the self they push away into the darkness.
The Dark Brothers: When that happens they get what is called a split personality because they begin to lose control of which self they allow to show, but they are aware of it they just can not stop it. So it's like they are sitting and watching a play or a movie a the theater and they are the only one in the audience.
The Dark Brothers: They want to end it which is why so many commit suicide but they also want to embrace it that is also why we have so many vile and disturbed people in the world today, but that's because they do not know how to embrace the darkness, Solomon.
The noises from the wind blowing throughout the mansion can be heard as clear as a bell in that drafty old library. Victor sits comfortably in a soft cushioned sofa next to the single candle, that keeps flickering as if it's about to go out. While Michael has moved away a bit taking his laptop with him as he continues to converse with Kingsley Solomon the gambling man they are about to face.
The Dark Brothers: When one embraces the darkness he can only become stronger, more enlightened as he envelopes the souls of those lost in the darkness. See those who embrace the darkness know what it can do for one's soul and all the possibilities that the night beholds. as so eloquently said by the author Dean Koontz.
“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.”
― Dean Koontz, Midnight
― Dean Koontz, Midnight
The Dark Brothers: Kingsley Solomon, answer this or at least go back to wherever makes you comfortable and think for a moment. When you were a kid, a small child did the night scare you or did it the darkness sooth you?
The Dark Brothers: When we were younger the darkness was my old friend, it was the sound of silence that made us more afraid than anything. But as we grew we came to realize that the darkness and the silence was nothing more than a way to combine the innermost thoughts of one's soul as they find themselves.
A swift and furious gush of wind blows through the room extinguishing the flame on the candle as Victor is now reading from the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Michael pauses for a brief moment as he pulls a package of matches from the pocket of his trousers and quickly strikes a match lighting the candle back up again. As the candle begins to burn the small but bright flame shines as bright as the sun in a room that would appear to be a dark as a black hole. Michael heads back over to his laptop and begins to converse once again as Victor continues to read "Silence - A fable" by Edgar Allen Poe. Michael can hear Victor reading to himself.
Victor Dark Reading From Edgar Allen Poe
"Then I grew angry and cursed, with the curse of silence, the river, and the lilies, and the wind, and the forest, and the heaven, and the thunder, and the sighs of the water-lilies. And they became accursed and were still. And the moon ceased to totter in its pathway up the heaven --and the thunder died away --and the lightning did not flash --and the clouds hung motionless --and the waters sunk to their level and remained --and the trees ceased to rock --and the water-lilies sighed no more --and the murmur was heard no longer from among them, nor any shadow of sound throughout the vast illimitable desert. And I looked upon the characters of the rock, and they were changed --and the characters were SILENCE."The Dark Brothers: Solomon, we need not give you a warning as we are smart enough to know you would not head such a thing, being a gambling man such as yourself. But allow us to give you some friendly advice you are about to step into the realm of darkness with the brothers of Darkness and we do not take lightly to trespassers. If you are to make it through the darkness and to the top of the corporate ladder in Dark Horse then you need to become more than just a gambling man. You need to become more than some anti-hero.
The Dark Brothers: See, Solomon, the darkness understands selfishness, loneliness and confusion aw to well. It also understands the evil that follows such things. The Darkness also isn't pure evil as good can emerge from it and light can shine from within the darkness, but do not misinterpret that either just because there is light doesn't mean the light is good. I will leave you with this one last quote Kingsley Solomon to ponder as you decide if this is the life for you if this match is the gamble for you.
“People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.”
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
― C.J. Roberts, Captive in the Dark
Michael closes the laptop as he heads back over next to Victor and grabs a complete work of Stephen King off of the shelf on his way and begins to read as they breeze has become a bit chillier as it's begun to rain.