+ José Soplanucas Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 I am so happy to see you all love Lovecraft! I have always been very fond of his work. When I came to the States, my first American friend was an English teacher. White, 30s, crazy, very smart and educated. I was very excited I was going to talk with an American about my three favorite English language authors, Poe-Lovecraft-Wilde. She only liked Poe, Wilde was a second line writer, and she did not know who Lovecraft was. I had the impression he was not a recognized author in his own country, and I have kept that first impression until right now. Thank you, guys! http://37.media.tumblr.com/cb385a70e265df96ae5fa3fcd4dffedf/tumblr_n3mqj8PJKD1qala6eo1_500.gif + WmClarke and AdamSmith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larstrup Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Yes please! I'll have a McPounding Burger please with extra choking please.... said someone on the Internets tennisjock, + HornyRetiree, AdamSmith and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 I've hear tell there's a charming little inn in Innsmouth called Gilman House. What say you, @AdamSmith ? Let's do The Shunned House instead. The Rats in the Walls? My ex-hubby was an interior architect & interior designer & decorator (quite talented, but alas developed eventually into rather a dreadful human being, just this side of a shoggoth). I had thought of writing an HPL memorium to him: The Unrenovated! + WmClarke and TruHart1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 The Shadow over Innsmouth H.P. Lovecraft During the winter of 1927–28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting — under suitable precautions — of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. Uninquiring souls let this occurrence pass as one of the major clashes in a spasmodic war on liquor. Cont.: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lovecraft/hp/innsmouth/complete.html + WmClarke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 (edited) Great novella 'Dagon' by Fred Chappell... https://www.sfsite.com/08a/dg301.htm Chappell was Guest of Honor at the 6th or so NecronomiCon in Providence ca. 1997, a marvelous annual for a time scholarly/fan follow-on event from that 1990 scholarly centenary conference, organized mostly by the Necronomicon Press people, plus Joshi and a handful of others. It lapsed after a decade or so, but recently looked to have been reborn, if only limpingly: http://necronomicon-providence.com/enter/ Edited July 2, 2017 by AdamSmith + WmClarke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 (edited) I am so happy to see you all love Lovecraft! I have always been very fond of his work. When I came to the States, my first American friend was an English teacher. White, 30s, crazy, very smart and educated. I was very excited I was going to talk with an American about my three favorite English language authors, Poe-Lovecraft-Wilde. She only liked Poe, Wilde was a second line writer, and she did not know who Lovecraft was. I had the impression he was not a recognized author in his own country, and I have kept that first impression until right now. Thank you, guys! http://37.media.tumblr.com/cb385a70e265df96ae5fa3fcd4dffedf/tumblr_n3mqj8PJKD1qala6eo1_500.gif HPL starting in the 1990s began to get the academic street cred he always merited. http://www.hplovecraft.com/study/la/ http://www.batsoverbooks.com/ci_63.html Edited July 2, 2017 by AdamSmith + WmClarke and + José Soplanucas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Also the superb HPL critic Kenneth W. Faig: https://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Kenneth-W-Faig/dp/0981488870 + WmClarke and + José Soplanucas 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 More on (Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast celebrant, among much else) Bob Price... H. P. Lovecraft scholarship As editor of the journal Crypt of Cthulhu[27] (published by Necronomicon Press) and of a series of Cthulhu Mythos anthologies,[28][29][30] Price has been a major figure in H. P. Lovecraft scholarship and fandom for many years.[31] In essays that introduce the anthologies and the individual stories, Price traces the origins of Lovecraft's entities, motifs, and literary style. The Cthulhu Cycle, for example, saw the origins of Cthulhu the octopoid entity in Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "The Kraken" (1830) and particular passages from Lord Dunsany, while The Dunwich Cycle points to the influence of Arthur Machen on Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror." Price's religious background often informs his Mythos criticism, seeing gnostic themes in Lovecraft's fictional god Azathoth[32] and interpreting "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" as a kind of initiation ritual.[33] Most of the early Cthulhu books by Chaosium were overseen by Price; his first book was The Hastur Cycle (1993), an anthology of short stories which traced the development of a single Lovecraftian element, and this was followed by Mysteries of the Worm (1993), a collection of Robert Bloch's Mythos fiction.[34] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Price#H._P._Lovecraft_scholarship + WmClarke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ José Soplanucas Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 (edited) Borges wrote a short story in homage to HPL. I cannot remember the title, or the book where it is compilated. In this story there is an ignominious monstrous entity you never see, but you can deduct its terrifying appearance by the shape of the furniture in its house and the design of doors, windows, and stairs. Edited July 2, 2017 by latbear4blk + WmClarke and AdamSmith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ José Soplanucas Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I found it. There are more things. https://vicusyd.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/borges-there-are-more-things.pdf + WmClarke and AdamSmith 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I found it. There are more things. https://vicusyd.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/borges-there-are-more-things.pdf :) + WmClarke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 The Shadow over Innsmouth H.P. Lovecraft During the winter of 1927–28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting — under suitable precautions — of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. Uninquiring souls let this occurrence pass as one of the major clashes in a spasmodic war on liquor. Cont.: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/l/lovecraft/hp/innsmouth/complete.html P.S. Sorry, the text linked above contains many corruptions, likely having been keyed in from the early Arkham House editions put out by the sloppy and indeed personally corrupt August Derleth. A human shoggoth if ever one was. Here is a text that looks like it was entered from the final corrected edition prepared from original typescript (on file with most of HPL's extant papers at the Brown U. library; many on display under glass during that Aug. '90 event) by Joshi: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx + José Soplanucas and + WmClarke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ José Soplanucas Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 "In order truly to see a thing, one must first understand it... If we truly saw the universe, perhaps we would understand it". I love Borges even more than I love HPL. AdamSmith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 I love Borges even more than I love HPL. Few things in literature more sublime than 'Pierre Menard...' http://hispanlit.qwriting.qc.cuny.edu/files/2011/06/Borges-Pierre-Menard.pdf + José Soplanucas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondance Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Apologizing with cake ... http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9eg60MEM1qaxlweo1_400.jpg ... how sweet. + WmClarke, AdamSmith, beachboy and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 + honcho, + quoththeraven, + WmClarke and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Apologizing with cake ... http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu9eg60MEM1qaxlweo1_400.jpg ... how sweet. Imagine the amount of litigation that some fundamentalist bakery had to be put through to force them to write that! + Gar1eth, + HornyRetiree, TruHart1 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallahadesquire Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-if-you-instantaneously-moved-Uranus-so-that-it-was-touching-Earth AdamSmith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gallahadesquire Posted July 2, 2017 Share Posted July 2, 2017 Also from quora.com What is your favorite kind of cheese? (sing to the tune of “My Favorite Things”) Cheddar on crackers and Gouda on biscuits Melting some brie on some warm salty Triscuits Bright mozzarella balls Soaking in brine These are some favorite Cheeses of mine Swiss cheese on sammies and colby and feta Muenster with sausages Couldn’t be betta Crumbly parmesan Makes my smile shine These are some favorite Cheeses of mine When there’s no cheese I am displeased I feel so alone But when I remember my favorite cheese I simply shout “PROVOLONE!” Nvr2Thick and TruHart1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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+ Gar1eth Posted July 3, 2017 Share Posted July 3, 2017 Think about it!! http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/4brncyq9js5w01m/File%20Jul%2002%2C%205%2052%2029%20PM.jpeg?dl=0 Gman TruHart1, + Oliver, AdamSmith and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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