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« Reply #120 on: October 03, 2011, 04:13:16 PM » |
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I thought it was a Monty Python thing but somewhere I saw someone claiming it was real, some Welsh sport perhaps, and there seemed to be photographs, so I filed it away as real in the old brain. I'm sure it's illegal by now, animal cruelty laws and all that.
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« Reply #121 on: October 06, 2011, 07:02:30 AM » |
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I have to say, I'm really disappointed with the way BJ died, I mean he is this crafty human/rat hybrid who has traveled throughout time and space and he is killed by chimney masonry??? To me it reminded me too much of the cleansing lightening bolt in The Picture in the House. He deserved a spectacular death, dammit!!!
If you want more Brown Jenkin, try Prey by Graham Masterton. It's set on the Isle of Wight (off the coast of Britain), but it draws heavily on "Dreams" and features Jenkin in gory action (if you don't care for gore, avoid Masterton, the Old Gent wouldn't care for it). One of his best Mythos novels. Just because I don't think anyone else has mentioned it, there was a film very loosely based on "Dreams" called "The Crimson Cult" a.k.a. "Curse of the Crimson Altar", which featured Boris Karloff, Barbara Steele, and Christopher Lee. Sadly, it's not a good film, despite this classic meeting of performers, and little of Lovecraft is left, just the idea that a man in a certain room dreams of being at a sabbat and being cajoled into signing is name in a sorcerer's book. I wouldn't go out of my way to see the film, but it passes 90 minutes pleasantly enough. |
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« Reply #122 on: October 20, 2011, 06:20:42 PM » |
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I was going over The Dunwich Horror and found similar themes fleshed out here in Witch House. Good ol' Wilber speaks on learning angles and the like, "...so I shall have to learn all the angles of the planes and all the formulas between the Yr and the Nhhngr..." I wonder what other angular, geometric, and mathematical references Lovecraft used that I've overlooked.
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« Reply #123 on: October 21, 2011, 10:53:06 AM » |
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I remember there's that strange door in Dagon or Call of Cthulhu, with the angles all wrong. I can't remember which tale it's in, but I'm pretty sure it's in the South Pacific.
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« Reply #124 on: October 21, 2011, 01:39:00 PM » |
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That was CoC that you are referring to. The MASSIVE door that was so well-balanced that a single mixxed-blood sailor could unleash teh mighty Cthulhu with one hand.
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« Reply #125 on: October 21, 2011, 02:31:09 PM » |
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What was that whole concave-convex dichotomy about?
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« Reply #126 on: October 24, 2011, 09:11:39 AM » |
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I think that was all about the non-euclidian aspect of the entire city. And that, strangely enough, is one of the reasons I liked Dreams in the Witch House so much: no impossible to visualize geometric angles.
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« Reply #127 on: October 24, 2011, 01:24:24 PM » |
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So I guess I could say Lovecraft is tying certain stories together via the non-Euclidean angles and doorways, and then strewing countless of his tales with hints of that trans-dimensional intrusion, so that the Plateau of Leng and/or Kadath are somehow coterminous with Tibet AND Antarctica, for example.
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« Reply #128 on: October 24, 2011, 03:37:43 PM » |
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As far as I see it, yeah, that sounds about right.
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« Reply #129 on: October 25, 2011, 12:50:50 PM » |
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This morning I dreamt I woke up, walked outside my room and there was this witch lady standing at the door, inside the closed door, staring at me. I didn't see her at first then looked up and she was sort of smiling or smirking at me. Then I woke up for real and really didn't want to open my room door, but I did, and there was no witch standing there. I thinkthe dream before I woke up into the dream involved batcave girls in Thailand, and the witch did look a little bit Thai and sort of Romany too. Anyway.
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« Reply #130 on: October 26, 2011, 08:39:08 AM » |
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That nasty subconscious witch, pulling you out of nice dreams of asian batgirls. How dare it spoil the fun...
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« Reply #131 on: October 26, 2011, 02:17:28 PM » |
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The thing is, Bob, I really think the witch WAS the batgirl. I know that sounds crazy. It was like here is this nubile young Thai goth chick, here she is 50 years later. Oh, and by the way, she's in your foyer smiling like a lunatic and probably intends to murder you. Anyway, dreams are weird, I just thought it was funny because the thread is Dreams in the Witch-House and this was a Witch in my Dream House. There weren't any non-Euclidean angles or anything like that, at least not that I noticed.
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« Reply #132 on: October 26, 2011, 02:29:20 PM » |
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Yeah, but still... Thai goth chick. That's got to be worth something.
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« Reply #133 on: October 27, 2011, 02:00:21 PM » |
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« Reply #134 on: October 27, 2011, 04:49:46 PM » |
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LOL, well I will take that as travel advice for my next transatlantic vacation.  Bob |
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