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At the point when Lovecraft was writing, dreaming was intimately connected with a new, exciting science - psychology and psychotherapy. And the technology's al
by thenomad 11y ago
At the point when Lovecraft was writing, dreaming was intimately connected with a new, exciting science - psychology and psychotherapy.
And the technology's all around - it's explicitly stated both in Lovecraft and subsequent folk who build on the Mythos that the Great Old Ones, the Mi-Go, the Great Race, and others aren't supernatural entities, but aliens with mathematics and magic we don't understand.
- peterwwillis 11y agoMagic is just science we don't understand yet.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoSqueaked the geeky yet intrepid explorer as he descended the cyclopean steps of the twilit cavern.
- Spivak 11y agoI'm suddenly really interested in his stories because of how the universe was described, but is that really what his writing style is like?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y agoYou tell us: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx
- mrec 11y agoNah, it doesn't use "gibbous", "squamous" or even "rugose" at all. Null points, 0xdeadbeefbabe, null points. Parody sites like http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/ http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/ actually give a pretty good sense of his signature style.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago“Things–presences or voices of some sort–could be drawn down from unknown places as well as to standard out.” is what I meant to say. Edit: Now I know puppet is horrible after all.
- qznc 11y agoWhen I played with Markov chains, I used Lovecraft and some scientific papers. It mixed frighteningly well. Example: Field of research were allowed to deadlock, but I still intend to accept the situation might be available for a unification algorithm.
- duskwuff 11y agoNo; his real writing style is even more florid than that. Lovecraft's writing is marked by complex sentence structure and a heavy use of archaic terms. Compare the opening of "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" for an example: http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/literature/lovecraft/novellas/dreamque.htm http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/liter...