Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:41 pm
^ Yea I posted it before:
www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft . Not quite his complete works and not quite the same in reading it from a dusty, moth eaten tome from the basement of the Library (I kid you not, thats the lengths I had to go to find Lovecraft in my town, they have a whole collection down there, but all old compilations from the 60's and 70's). The white text on black background is easy on the eyes at least. Theres plenty of Poe and other writers in there as well.
. You indeed see through the glass clearly.
www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft . Not quite his complete works and not quite the same in reading it from a dusty, moth eaten tome from the basement of the Library (I kid you not, thats the lengths I had to go to find Lovecraft in my town, they have a whole collection down there, but all old compilations from the 60's and 70's). The white text on black background is easy on the eyes at least. Theres plenty of Poe and other writers in there as well.
The Warhammer universes (fantasy and 40k) are easily some of the coolest and most brutal settings i've encountered. Thus i'll allow them their indiscretions, as i'll allow Lovecrafts. The Imperiums black and white (no pun intended) view of the the universe really sets the tone for WH40k. Cleanse. Purge. KILL.Montresor wrote:The setting does not say that people think peasants are degenerate...it says they are degenerate. I have no problem with the game doing what it does to support its excellent tone and atmosphere, though it's not even a vaguely accurate view of what medieval peasants were like (a view which is tainted by many erroneous assumptions of them in pop-culture in general). '80s era WFRP did use familiar racial concepts for its tone - i.e. the dark-skinned were savage and prone to violence etc.
True on both countsMontresor wrote:...I think you would agree that they form a large part of the best ones. His poetry I tend to discount...if only because I think it's universally terrible
. You indeed see through the glass clearly. Simultaneous feelings of disbelief and resigned acceptance on reading that.As an example of this, my old Honours supervisor went into a second hand bookstore and asked them where their middle-eastern section was - they answered with "oh, terrorism is over there".
Maybe, but maybe not, since his works have only been considered "true" literature in the mainstream since...hrm...maybe the 70's with Arkham house? Before then he was relatively unknown to the mainstream or dismissed as a pulp writer, as opposed to Poe who gained literature status (rightly) during his lifetime (over 150 years ago!). 40 years of recognition... I'm sure people have done studies on his writing, but it would certainly be interested in seeing a thesis on the connections of eugenics to his writings.I wonder if anyone has written a lit thesis on HPL and eugenics?
If you mean stories that posit the mythos as real, and Lovecraft as merely acting as a conduit for it, writing it all down? I have come across those yes. And one ridiculous movie called Necronomicon, but we'll leave that out of this thread....those tales which mention him as some kind of prophet writing about the mythos? I can't quite put my finger on why, but it always seemed a really childish tact for a story. I think King does it in his Crouch End story, though I may be wrong.