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It's probably just me, and I'm not representative of most listeners/subscribers, but this is EXACTLY the sort of thing I simply love. Well done.
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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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Genus Unknown
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2012, 04:41:58 PM » |
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No, I'm with you. More of this, please, dear hosts. As much as you can convince Andrew to do.
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2012, 11:53:10 PM » |
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Haven't listened yet, but as a history geek this will be right up my alley. Double plus since I don't know much about that time period, so I'll learn all kinds of nifty things.
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"We shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many columned Y'ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones we shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever."
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RedRetroRobot
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« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2012, 10:41:47 AM » |
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Floored with how much was covered in this segment. Please keep the time machine rolling~
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//“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.” Red Retro Robot - WaMoH |
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« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2012, 02:20:05 PM » |
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Great stuff! Andrew, stop and take a breath once in a while. I found myself speeding a little too much while listening. I know you're excited, but pause now and again, man!  Really enjoyed the Springfield, MA shout-outs. I work in a museum in Springfield that actually has Duryea cars on display. They're pretty interesting creatures, VERY different from what we call a car, but neat nonetheless. In fact, normally I listen to the podcast while I'm cleaning the exhibits. I didn't this week - more's the pity. Anyway, looking forward to the next one of these. Lots of fun! |
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2012, 12:07:57 PM » |
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This was a good episode! Great stuff. As a fan and critic of "weird fiction" this is the kind of thing I really get into and try to unpack when I explore one of these stories. It makes the context so much richer!
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2012, 12:32:58 PM » |
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Oh, by the way (what I meant to post above) - in answer to one of the questions posed in the episode. Chambers would have ABSOLUTELY known about the Yellow Emperor.
He was actually quite well-educated on Chinese mythology. In one of his later works of weird fiction, the short story collection "The Maker of Moons" the title story features a character called Yue-Laou, who was a character of Tang Dynasty mythology. If Chambers had picked up any book on Chinese mythemes he would have scrolled across a mention of both Yue-Laou, the Man Under the Moon, and the Yellow Emperor. Add to that the fact that Chambers has a great little story in "The Maker of Moons" called the Purple Emperor.
Maker of Moons was really a story about making gold - alchemy. So RWC, in addition to being an artist with knowledge of things like opriment, demonstrated some knowledge of alchemy, Chinese mythology, the writings of other weird fiction authors like Bierce, etc. So I think a lot of the subtexts we read into his work aren't mere guesses, but actually intentional.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2012, 05:49:05 PM » |
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More of this, please and thank you!
It reminds me of my favorite parts of lit classes--learning more about the world in which the author was writing!
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2012, 06:51:24 PM » |
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I'm not ordinarily into this sort of thing but I thought the episode was well done and Andrew is clearly knowledgeable in terms of the topic, I would listen to something like this again.
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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 #9 on: September 10, 2012, 09:39:09 PM » |
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I just finished Devil in the White City, which I was finally motivated to read thanks to this episode. Good book.
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Whataitai
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« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2012, 04:11:36 AM » |
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Have to say this was one of my favorite - and one of the best - episodes yet. The wide range of interconnected subjects that were
covered had me enthralled. Even my girlfriend - who usually takes the piss out of anything Lovecraft related - stopped what she was doing to listen
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T. Kelly Lee
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« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2012, 08:17:27 AM » |
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Have to say this was one of my favorite - and one of the best - episodes yet. The wide range of interconnected subjects that were
covered had me enthralled. Even my girlfriend - who usually takes the piss out of anything Lovecraft related - stopped what she was doing to listen
So, you're gonna dump her, right? I mean seriously, after 20 years with the same woman if my missus were not also a rabid HPL fan we would have ended up in divorce court ages ago. Probably after our first trip to Providence... (I kid, I kid.) Maybe.  |
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« Reply #12 on: September 12, 2012, 08:39:16 PM » |
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I just finished Devil in the White City, which I was finally motivated to read thanks to this episode. Good book.
Yes. Yes, it is. |
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