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« Reply #30 on: May 21, 2010, 01:54:24 PM » |
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This is a statue by Henry Clews'--Henry was mentioned in the podcast as a possible inspiration for Lovecraft--it's listed as being made in the 1920's.  |
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« Reply #31 on: May 21, 2010, 03:19:39 PM » |
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This is a statue by Henry Clews'--Henry was mentioned in the podcast as a possible inspiration for Lovecraft--it's listed as being made in the 1920's. Just add tentacles and wings! (we need a Cthulhu smiley on here) I really enjoyed this week's podcast. The tale of Inspector Legrasse is one of my favorite sections, it leaves open so many possibilities about other creatures and things that lurk on our own land. I agree with the blog commenter who called it the Empire Strikes Back of the collection of tales. I'm also looking forward to what's coming up next. Whether it was moving back to Providence or something else, this is most of Lovecraft's best stuff (though "Rats" is still one of my favorites). |
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« Reply #32 on: May 21, 2010, 08:20:38 PM » |
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Wow, that statue is totally the Cthulhu idol!  |
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« Reply #33 on: May 21, 2010, 09:10:07 PM » |
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Lovecraft takes it, twists it--even more than it is already twisted--and makes it totally his.
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« Reply #34 on: May 22, 2010, 02:44:40 PM » |
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CthulhuChick - this is what I use as a Cthulhu smiley :=
Is there another out there?
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« Reply #35 on: May 22, 2010, 03:44:41 PM » |
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Great segment, Gentlemen! The portion where Legrasse interrogates Castro and Castro hints at what will come, once Cthulhu rises again. I think it was Chad who talked about the Judeo-Christian quality to the description and I thought the same thing while reading it, similar to the Book of Revelations.
Another curious thing as I was reading the passage which describes Cthulhu teaching man new ways of killing, I couldn't help but think of the atomic bomb and how this story written long before the Manhattan Project...fortuitous?
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'Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.'
Robert E. Howard, "The Tower of the Elephant"
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« Reply #36 on: May 22, 2010, 08:44:34 PM » |
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Cthulhu Smiley...
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« Reply #37 on: May 22, 2010, 10:38:45 PM » |
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Brilliant!
If someone were to make one like the normal little yellow smileys, it should be sleeping with little zzzs floating up over its head.
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« Reply #38 on: May 22, 2010, 11:00:12 PM » |
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« Reply #39 on: May 23, 2010, 02:41:03 AM » |
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« Reply #40 on: May 24, 2010, 03:35:44 PM » |
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Another curious thing as I was reading the passage which describes Cthulhu teaching man new ways of killing, I couldn't help but think of the atomic bomb and how this story written long before the Manhattan Project...fortuitous?
The new ways of killing passage is compared to Fred Nietzche's Beyond Good and Evil and Al Crowley's Book of the Law all the time. I don't know for I have read neither. Manhattan Babylon, fortuitous might not be the right word  |
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« Reply #41 on: May 25, 2010, 01:26:12 AM » |
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The thing that gets me about both cultists and anarchists is they all seem to think that when the end comes, they will be the ones on top, and not the ones who have to "squeal like a pig".
Silly hors-d'oevres, trix are for kids.
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« Reply #42 on: May 25, 2010, 05:46:46 AM » |
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The thing that gets me about both cultists and anarchists is they all seem to think that when the end comes, they will be the ones on top, and not the ones who have to "squeal like a pig".
Silly hors-d'oevres, trix are for kids.
Excellent point, except that most anarchists are not millennialists/millinnerianists at all, they're not waiting for the end or the big crunch and the expectation for the period following the end of the state is pretty much "life goes on" or even "life as usual minus a lot of paperwork, taxes and interference." You might mean nihilists? Hardcore misanthropes are fatalistic about their own prospects in their doomsday phantasies as well, as a general rule, or at least from what I've seen. I look forward to listening to Haunter with forebodings of dread, hopefully. |
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« Reply #43 on: May 26, 2010, 03:34:31 AM » |
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Really, I think anarchists, by definition, wouldn't have anyone on top. If you're on top, it's not anarchism, it's just, like, you running things.
Anyway, I'm with old book's "hardcore misanthropes," ready to watch this wretched world crumble, even if it takes me and all I love with it.
I'll probably feel differently after I've had my coffee.
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« Reply #44 on: May 26, 2010, 03:52:24 PM » |
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Wow - what a superb podcast. To get Andrew Leman on as both Guest and Reader was perfect, considering his involvement (director etc.) for the film Call of Cthulhu. The way that Andrew could say (and without any stumbles or hesitations - how long did he train for that!) “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.” just blew me away. Also (brag-alert) by being a very lucky (albeit now also insane  ) owner of the same box as Professor Angell had (in the film and in the book) I have enjoyed listening to this podcast whilst looking through the contents. It is an amazing prop... The podcast about this story really has been the climax of the series! It's going to be hard to follow but there are some stories I'm really looking forward to still. The whisperer in darkness (not at all waiting for that film! Not at all... http://www.cthulhulives.org/Whisperer/twid-blog.html ), At the mountains of madness and The thing on the doorstep.. to mention the top three... Thanks Chris and Chad for this superb podcast! |
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