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« on: June 22, 2010, 10:17:34 PM » |
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A set up to discuss HPL's story Oh! My Pineal Gland! From Beyond. So.. you got your narrator, and the Honorable Senator Tillinghast scientist Tillinghast, and his jellyfish! everywhere! machine.
Seriously, there needs to be a skit/flash animation to the "Senate Floor" bit.
And the pineal gland also comes into play in the horror/melodrama anime Elfen Lied, where girls with pink hair rip people limb from lime with invisible psychic arms.
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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2010, 01:16:31 PM » |
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If I remember the podcast correctly, did anyone find it ironic that:
A) They used to think the pineal gland had something to do with the soul
B) It is now thought of as affecting dreams
C) Lovecraft treats dreams as 'other worlds'
Maybe its just me, but it seems strangely connected!
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« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2010, 12:37:11 PM » |
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I feel like this story embodies so much of what I think of when I think of Lovecraft's style. I think this would make the perfect introduction to Lovecraft for people who haven't read any of his other stuff--what do you guys think?
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« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2010, 01:02:30 PM » |
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Yeah, it really fits a whole bunch of patented Lovecraftian goodness into just a couple of pages. Great introduction for sane people Lovecraft virgins.
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« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2011, 08:21:31 AM » |
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I can't be the only person who thought of Buckaroo Banzai, and the Oscillation Overthruster when reading this story.
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2011, 04:59:01 PM » |
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When listening to the read recently, I came upon something. When Tillinghast speaks of "calling demons from the stars" and "harnessing shadows" that "sow death and madness", it makes me want to do some retrofitting of ideas.
I like to blame Tillinghast for the state of everything. If we assume his claim to cross "time, space, and diminution" without "bodily motion" is true, and referencing the quotes above, it makes me think of the Elder Things, Cthulhu, the Fungi from Y, etc were coaxed here by him. That things like the Haunter of the Dark and other motif Lovecraft uses in his later works somehow really strike cords with this early story inspire me to think that Tillinghast started to much with time and history and because of his egotistical mis-adventuring caused what has become the world of the Cthulhu mythos.
Just an idea that has no basis in chronological rationale, but would be ever so ironic that humans not only were made by mistake, but were also the cause of their creation and ultimate destruction. It does seem odd that while humans means nothing, that the planet somehow does. From the Crawling Chaos to Mountains of Madness, the planet seems to be a center point for a lot of mythos stuff, yet the current inhabitance (humans) and many of its previous "masters" seem not to matter within a cosmological framework. Why is this so? One way to account for it is to simply blame it all on Tillinghast.
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2011, 05:01:02 PM » |
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Hmmmm....
I like it.
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2011, 12:02:32 AM » |
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Osyrisdiamond, that is a damned neat idea. I can see a cool graphic novel deriving from that concept  |
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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2011, 05:12:13 PM » |
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Osyrisdiamond, that is a damned neat idea. I can see a cool graphic novel deriving from that concept It would be fun to tie in a lot of the older in with the later "true" mythos stuff to make a coherent narrative. In effect, that was Lovecraft was already doing and with his love of having others play in his world, methinks he just might approve of the idea! Too bad I have no drawing skills -- and no one takes my writing seriously enough to partner with me. Oh well, it is indeed a cool idea.  |
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"It is good to be a cynic... better to be a contented cat... best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing... we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice... If we were sensible we would seek death—the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed." -HPL
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