There is something pulling me into the scenario: when I first traveled heads on toward the continental divide, some years back, the West became by definition my part of the US, and some portion of me stayed out there, waiting and advancing memories at regular intervals.
[taken on the way from Los Alamos down on the [...]
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Yeah, that’s exactly what Volkswagen automobiles are known as over here in Germany – chariots of the Gods, even multi-tentacled ones like Cthulhu. Just so as not to create confusion – Miskatonic University is in Massachussetts, and enrollment is extremely competitive.
The title begs for details, it just does: why would the frontier pop up there in the first place?
The novel, The Confidence Man, is supposedly set in the 1850s, and it describes a voyage through territories – the Midwest and the Coastal Plains, or: the area wedged between the Appalachians and the Great Plains, or: [...]
This blog here is quickly drawing toward its six month anniversary. My mission objective has survived. The objective was to offer a place for the academic/scholarly scrutiny of Lovecraft’s works, and the scrutiny would be included.
I also realize, – I’ve been a sloth. What would I see this evening, at last and I don’t [...]
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So, here I go to conclude that part of my investigation, the purpose of which is to evaluate how the concepts of race, frontier, and apocalypse go together in Lovecraft’s fiction. More precisely, the issue was race, and I tried to establish, and am still trying to, [...]
No, no – I don’t lapse into the age-blind nostalgia lingo of Lovecraft’s characters – that slangy, creepy way of telling things that happened 100s of years ago as if they’d had an active part in them. Not so. I meant this mayor here, Jean Sylvain Bailly, head of the first commune, in post-Revolution! [...]
This is not so much a romanticized introspection into a patron-customer-relation, but rather a justification of a territorial expansion that was still rolling on when Melville and Bird wrote their novel.
Lovecraft never saw the Mississippi. Of course Lovecraft saw the Mississippi, in New Orleans (thanks to Kenneth Hite for the hint!). He never saw [...]
— via the Constructivist…
When he quizzes his readers and simultaneously points to Flannery O’Connor (on my reading list, as well), I cannot help but think: this challenge demands mastery, my mastery? Who knows?
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Also, another apocalypse is dawning, this time of the nuclear type. The zombies are gone, but…
Which survivor of the impending nuclear apocalypse are [...]
Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the 4th of July…
(Soundgarden: 4th of July)
Not one…say…more professional video clip of that song around, damn. But notice that nifty little NIN sticker on the guitar, that’s adding [...]
