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« Reply #121 on: August 18, 2011, 08:40:13 AM » |
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No... I think even the Deep Ones have their limits when it comes to sex with humans. I don't think they have a problem with homosexuality, but Kanye West? Yeah, I think he might just be pushing things to far even for hideous fish-frogs from the depths of the abyss.
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« Reply #122 on: August 19, 2011, 07:18:03 AM » |
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Is it just me, or does Zadok just affirm a little too much that he didn't take the third pledge? Is he perhaps not gluborheatic, as Nietzsche was syphilitic, when he wrote all that really strange stuff?
Take the pledge, take the plunge, catch the splash, never look back.
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« Reply #123 on: August 19, 2011, 08:11:26 AM » |
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You know, OldBook, I think you are now always going to be Troy McClure to me.  Bob |
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« Reply #124 on: August 19, 2011, 04:49:01 PM » |
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Everyone's a criticus eh. Anyway, I should have posted that incisive insight of mine in that other thread about doing Old Ones. Isn't Friday almost over? Is it just me?
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« Reply #125 on: August 19, 2011, 05:31:21 PM » |
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You know, OldBook, I think you are now always going to be Troy McClure to me. Bob Omigod, Troy McClure made a bargain with the Deep Ones! |
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Mike J.
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« Reply #126 on: August 19, 2011, 10:05:28 PM » |
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Are Zadok's "Kanakys" the same as the "Kanakas" on the Alert in Call of Cthulhu?
Wikipedia says: "Kanaka, a word, meaning 'people' or 'person', used by various Polynesian people to refer to themselves."
How generic or specific did Lovecraft intend it to be?
If they were blood relatives or descendants, it might explain their apparent propensity to worship sea monsters.
-MJ
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« Reply #128 on: August 20, 2011, 02:40:36 AM » |
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The wrap-up for "Innsmouth" just might be my favorite episode of the whole show. Just getting Robert M. Price to expound at length on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was like Christmas, and the Donovan Loucks interview was downright fascinating. Although I am a little disappointed that the guys overlooked the one MAJOR problem with living in Arkham:  I would love to see what would happen if they put fish into the reservoir.  |
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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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« Reply #129 on: August 20, 2011, 02:47:38 AM » |
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Are Zadok's "Kanakys" the same as the "Kanakas" on the Alert in Call of Cthulhu?
Wikipedia says: "Kanaka, a word, meaning 'people' or 'person', used by various Polynesian people to refer to themselves."
How generic or specific did Lovecraft intend it to be?
If they were blood relatives or descendants, it might explain their apparent propensity to worship sea monsters.
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Yes, that's just Zadok's dialect there. Kanaka was the generic term for Hawaiian in America about 100 years ago. By extension it meant Pacific Islander. |
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« Reply #130 on: August 20, 2011, 11:04:17 AM » |
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Isn't the Arkham water reservoir on top of the old Gardner place?
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« Reply #131 on: August 21, 2011, 11:55:04 AM » |
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Isn't the Arkham water reservoir on top of the old Gardner place?
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« Reply #132 on: August 21, 2011, 12:20:02 PM » |
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One more thing - we all assume that the Robert Olmstead is a Deep One.
What if he's only snapped, and turned Quisling due to the trauma of his experience? What if he's reading more into his family history than there is? What if he's just going to wander out to Innsmouth Harbor, and drown himself believing he can breathe underwater?
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"Then again, I'm Gary Busey, who knows what the f*** I'm talking about." - Gary Busey
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« Reply #133 on: August 21, 2011, 03:20:35 PM » |
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Robert M. Price annoys me for the 2nd time. I freely admit I am not an expert, but some of his connections sound very tenuous to me. What he said about the people of Insmouth hiding from their sin seems especially to be viewed from the wrong direction.
The interview with Loucks was amazing and I wish it had gone on for another hour...or been the whole show.
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Started reading Arkham House and HPL in the '60's.
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« Reply #134 on: August 21, 2011, 04:12:43 PM » |
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One more thing - we all assume that the Robert Olmstead is a Deep One.
What if he's only snapped, and turned Quisling due to the trauma of his experience? What if he's reading more into his family history than there is? What if he's just going to wander out to Innsmouth Harbor, and drown himself believing he can breathe underwater?
Why did his Uncle then shoot himself after a visit to Innsmouth? Why would his cousin land up with the same delusion at the Canton Sanitarium - probably the Molly Starks one that is to this day considered one of the most haunted sites in the U.S. BTW.... |
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