Welcome to the website for Bedrieger Junction’s Slant of Light writing group! This is where we’ll be posting our writings and art to share with the few souls who stumble across the site.
“There is, first, the Literature of Knowledge; and, secondly, the Literature of Power. The function of the first is—to teach; the function of the second is—to move: the first is a rudder; the second, an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. Remotely, it may travel towards an object seated in what Lord Bacon calls dry light; but, proximately, it does and must operate—else it ceases to be a Literature of Power—on and through that humid light which clothes itself in the mists and glittering iris of human passions, desires, and genial emotions.”
— Thomas de Quincey, “The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power”