• mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Can someone explain the joke? I get the Micheal Jordan and the Jordan logo but don’t understand the other parts. Thanks!

    • ickplant@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      It’s based on a short story called The Enigma of Amigara Fault, where

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      people find people-shaped holes in the mountains and feel compelled to go inside them.

      Here’s a short summary. You can read it in full here.

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        1 year ago

        I never really got what was so spooky about it. My unpopular opinion is that it’s a pretty mid story that’s saved by good illustration.

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          Depends a bit on how sensitive you are for claustrophobia. In a sense you can read it as people being stuck in their holes for eternity in some kind of trance.

          This can get a very weird feeling of destitute loneliness, akin to a astronaut slowly drifting off in space. It’s not horror per se, but some perceive it that way.