Robert R.
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« Reply #15 on: December 22, 2010, 04:24:34 PM » |
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All I knew about this story until a few months ago was that Yig was one of the lesser monsters in Arkham Horror. But reading it really made it something distinct. And gross. And one of the times that Lovecraft really pulls off a fakeout instead of underlining the inevitable revelation.
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« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2010, 08:28:36 AM » |
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Great episode, guys. And the reading by former U.S. President Bill Clinton was just icing on the cake. "I did not have sexual relations with that snake devil."  I kid, of course. Mr. Falcon did an awesome job, and has an awesome name. |
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« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2010, 09:50:41 AM » |
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Also, you guys got "sententiously" all wrong. It means someone is very dramatic and given to speaking in cliches and aphorisms, much like your "community theater" characterization of the doctor. So it's actually a pretty good adverb.
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MattRichardson
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« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2010, 01:11:55 PM » |
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Also, you guys got "sententiously" all wrong. It means someone is very dramatic and given to speaking in cliches and aphorisms, much like your "community theater" characterization of the doctor. So it's actually a pretty good adverb.
Yeah, I don't think it is related to the word sentient at all. Great episode and story however. Yig makes an appearance in a couple later stories, including "Out of the Aeons" where he is described as a god "friendly to man" interestingly enough. |
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« Reply #19 on: December 24, 2010, 01:28:51 PM » |
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Yeah, it's more like "sentence-ing-ly."
I'm happy and glad to report the podcraft is back after two or three STINKER episodes. Sorry, I'm candid. And I drank two beers. Two more to go.
I did not like this story Sam I am but ... Chrad and Chis have renewed their great take on the HPL arcana to my mind. Welcome back to the fold.
I think Rob Price has a great sense of humour and expect it to shine through in the next podcrafting. I'm also happy to learn he's still with us. I found some great readings by him but won't post the links openly because there are probably copyright considerations etc. <cough*PM PM*cough.>
Is there any chance of getting Willum Pugmyre, Esq., as a guest? I've "followed" him since about 1985 but have never heard his voice. Or seen his picture.
I did a sort of Festival thing tonight, to honour the memory. It is 8:21 PM here now. The neters of the hour beckon. Every angel is terrible. Every hour is an angel. The clock ticks to a psychotic beat. I don't know how much longer I will be able to communicate. I hear the music flooding in from the sky with memories of a Cyclopaean past, harmonies built on strange quatrains of faerie. Let them yet sing, dear God, let them yet sing...
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We live on a placid Rhode Island and Providence Plantations of ignorance in the midst of the black seas of an infinity of dark foreigners, and it was not meant that we should voyage too far.
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« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2010, 02:12:45 PM » |
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After these last few episodes, I have a burning desire to write a mediocre story, send it to HPL with the promise of a few bucks, and have him make it...if not less mediocre (The Last Test), then layered in eldritchness. Also I keep feeling so bad for him in business matters.
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« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2010, 11:21:42 AM » |
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Enjoyable episode and a great reader. Never did get around to reading The Curse of Yig, but having heard the episode, I am determined to read it soon.
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« Reply #22 on: December 25, 2010, 08:16:45 PM » |
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I think it's significant that the wife dreams about Satan on the night of the tragedy. Yig has already been identified by our narrator with Quetzalcoatl, is this an implied connection with the Biblical serpent as well? Hmmm...
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« Reply #23 on: December 25, 2010, 09:12:58 PM » |
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I think it's significant that the wife dreams about Satan on the night of the tragedy. Yig has already been identified by our narrator with Quetzalcoatl, is this an implied connection with the Biblical serpent as well? Hmmm...
I'd missed that parallel by thinking of Yig only as connected with the devil in being demonish, not the actual Eve/snake connection. I'm sure doing a paper on "'The Curse of Yig' As Read Through the Eyes of Eden" would be overkill, but we've got man & woman entering paradise (new land, new life), a woman sinning, and the two of them paying a horrible price...one the woman carries on her body/through her reproduction. Anyone else see other parallels? |
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« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2010, 09:51:56 AM » |
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Yeah, I ran across a parallel synchronicitily:
Colin Wilson's From Atlantis to the Sphinx retells a lot of Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods and they both tell about a class of priests in Mexico called snakes (in Nahuatl or some such language) who sprang from the Virachoa (spelling?) or Wotan or Quetzalcoatl tradition. The tradition is there was a really major horrible disaster and only a few people survived by hiding inside hollowed trees and caves in the mountains. They were pretty much SOL until these guys came along, some dudes in robes and stuff who had hovercraft or something. They pretty much got their back, set up some highland agricultural terracing, taught people how to use the native plants up there and travelled from the tip of South America up into Mexico.
This is the white guy Montezuma was waiting for when Cortez showed up instead.
Best line in the podcast: "I'm from the Midwest. We know about Yig."
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chrisblue77
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« Reply #25 on: December 28, 2010, 04:36:27 PM » |
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:-\Boring story.
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mikc
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« Reply #26 on: January 02, 2011, 06:17:11 PM » |
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Is there any chance of getting Willum Pugmyre, Esq., as a guest? I've "followed" him since about 1985 but have never heard his voice. Or seen his picture.
Check out his youtube channel under http://www.youtube.com/user/MrWilum; he's a sight for the eyes. I have to agree that the Podcast had got a little boring, but you're back with a bang! Thanks, guys! |
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« Reply #27 on: January 02, 2011, 08:29:13 PM » |
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Like Genus Unknown I'm new to the Bishop-Yig stories, I think maybe people who've played the RPG might be more familiar with Yig. I wonder why HPL never used it in one of "his" stories. Good episode, as ever.
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« Reply #28 on: January 02, 2011, 09:17:41 PM » |
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Has anyone mentioned the film adaptation yet? |
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« Reply #29 on: January 03, 2011, 01:33:45 PM » |
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How far along are they on this? Seems to be some folks trying to get funding and no actual movie as of yet! |
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