I’m finally getting back to serious blogging.
I had concluded in my last serious post that Randolph Carter, protagonist of the Through the Gates of the Silver Key, is not quite right in the head, as far as his relation to the timeline is concerned. He is outside history…and outside conscious perception.
As de Marigny paused, old [...]
Race and Decay (III – finally!)
Race and Decay (II.75)
So. I can see a row, endlessly long, of accusing faces that turn to me as I enter the room, only to whisper in their most hideous voices available…”Where have you been, master? What good do you think you do when you’re abandoning us like that? Why don’t you kill us off with a bottle [...]
Race and Decay (II.5)
Lovecraft’s characters may not feel time passing, but I do, violently, fast, in a rush.
The London Lovecraft event, or in more precise terms – Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Theory – is drawing close enough for me to see myself packing the bags…but than can wait a little while longer. In his blog at [...]
Race and Decay (II)
This argument will take some time to build and I will do it step by careful step, taking all the time there is to do it. I will eventually get into argumentative waters that are more strictly pertinent to race and decay, no doubt about it – at least I seem to be aware of [...]
Race and Decay (I)
After sampling the treatment of race in Lovecraft scholarship – and giving a slight taste, I hope, of how the topic has been underestimated, systematically, I would now like to explore – why it has been underestimated, meaning I would like to establish that a clear understanding of Lovecraft’s use of the racial/alien other is [...]
Inebriate, with beer (and joy)
I’m not on any sort of tight schedule, but I still feel pressed to say a word on why I’ve come to lapse on that nice post rhythm I had earlier this month.
There’s a triumvirate of reasons.
The most pertinently academic of these is the fact that over here, finally, the semester has started, and I [...]
Race in Lovecraft Scholarship (V)
I used the four preceding posts to pitchfork the race topic and lift it into the limelight, like a price pig (or a price tofu ball). I hopefully was not too subliminal about observing that something is fundamentally wrong with a branch of scholarship that refuses to engage one of its central topics for sheer [...]
Race in Lovecraft Scholarship (IV)
This little survey of mine is now entering lap number 4, and it’s still alive and kicking…
…it seems. I’ll sample not a whole lot more passages from Lovecraft scholars on the matter of race – in fact, I realize I hurdled enough of these (if only by Joshi) into earlier posts, and however strong I [...]
Race in Lovecraft Scholarship (III)
It’s time to thrash the satellites. I can say with some accuracy that I’ve read most of what was published over the past 70 decades under the header of “Lovecraft scholarship”, except a few oddities and extravagancies that are simply not available over here, in the old world, unless you’re willing to serve the currents [...]
Race in Lovecraft Scholarship (II)
What’s the next best thing to a front page ad in the New York Times? Right you are – a front page appearance in that magnificently expertised blog here…
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There are a few things I would like tap.
First: it’s getting empirical. A little. The tiniest bit. In my last post, I quoted from a Joshi riposte [...]
