Comments on: The Riders of the Purple Sage and the End of History http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/ Lovecraft/Gothic/Apocalypse - Lovecraft's Gothic Apocalypse Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:45:06 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: raincoaster http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1985 raincoaster Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:45:06 +0000 http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1985 Did the riders of the purple sage eat you or something? Did the sandwalkers get you? Did the riders of the purple sage eat you or something? Did the sandwalkers get you?

]]> By: The Constructivist http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1354 The Constructivist Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:08:54 +0000 http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1354 Just a shot in the dark--I haven't actually read that much Lovecraft. In fact, I approach Lovecraft the way I used to approach <I>The Graduate</I>--saw the <I>Simpsons</I> parody first and thought when I finally got around to seeing the original movie, "ah, so that's what Groening was making fun of!" My <I>Simpsons</I> equivalent is a fine little parody/tribute in Gaiman's first short story collection....a travelogue, if I remember right! Just a shot in the dark–I haven’t actually read that much Lovecraft. In fact, I approach Lovecraft the way I used to approach The Graduate–saw the Simpsons parody first and thought when I finally got around to seeing the original movie, “ah, so that’s what Groening was making fun of!” My Simpsons equivalent is a fine little parody/tribute in Gaiman’s first short story collection….a travelogue, if I remember right!

]]> By: DJG http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1343 DJG Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:58:12 +0000 http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1343 Actually, that was in my pre-digital photographing days, and the camera was a clumsy, mechanical thing that must have done some heavy work, as I came back with a dozen or so reels of film. That's an interesting thought on Baudrillard as Lovecraftian, and I'm still grinning, their prose styles and self-understandings just seem miles apart, and I wonder how heavy-handed endtime preacher Lovecraft would fare in an all-out open battle of the books against more subtle and witty Baudrillard or one of the other grand French stylists/theorists. They both do have a way of archaeologizing (does that word even exist?) the site and try to write out its culture from the spot, the road, as it were - there are also some travellogues in the Lovecraft oeuvre, although he tends to go out there with loving nostalgia in his eyes, not so much with the scrutiny that Baudrillard brings on. Actually, that was in my pre-digital photographing days, and the camera was a clumsy, mechanical thing that must have done some heavy work, as I came back with a dozen or so reels of film.

That’s an interesting thought on Baudrillard as Lovecraftian, and I’m still grinning, their prose styles and self-understandings just seem miles apart, and I wonder how heavy-handed endtime preacher Lovecraft would fare in an all-out open battle of the books against more subtle and witty Baudrillard or one of the other grand French stylists/theorists. They both do have a way of archaeologizing (does that word even exist?) the site and try to write out its culture from the spot, the road, as it were – there are also some travellogues in the Lovecraft oeuvre, although he tends to go out there with loving nostalgia in his eyes, not so much with the scrutiny that Baudrillard brings on.

]]> By: The Constructivist http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1335 The Constructivist Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:26:49 +0000 http://hugtheshoggoth.wordpress.com/2007/08/26/the-riders-of-the-purple-sage-and-the-end-of-history/#comment-1335 Great pictures (and words)! I'm still kicking myself for not bringing a camera along for my little "on the road" experience throughout the west one summer (aught one?), but what you said about the images sticking in your head is definitely my experience! You know, now that I think of it, Baudrillard's <I>America</I> may well be Lovecraftian and not just a response to Barthes' <I>Empire of Signs</I> on Japan.... Great pictures (and words)! I’m still kicking myself for not bringing a camera along for my little “on the road” experience throughout the west one summer (aught one?), but what you said about the images sticking in your head is definitely my experience!

You know, now that I think of it, Baudrillard’s America may well be Lovecraftian and not just a response to Barthes’ Empire of Signs on Japan….

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