Re: Lovecraft

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com writes:
> >    I don't think so... But if its style is not what I like best, his
> >world
> >is pretty good and well-worked. The idea of Cosmic Horror I like very
> >much, but the numerous racist words I like less (read: I hate very
> >much).
>
> I winced everytime I came across a racist word. He also seemed to be very
> prejudiced against the country folk in Masachussets (or at least country
> folk in general) by the way he depicted some of their speech.
> Unfortunately that was how some people talked back then. It's not
> excuseable but it is something to realize.  I liked his novels mostly
> because the terror was more of an alien terror than a supernatural one
> (favorite story: Pickman's Model).
        In fact there is no supernatural in Lovecraft's books, and that's what
I like. Everything that happens in his world is perfectly compatible
with the laws of this world. Even the Great Elder Ones don't obey all
the physics laws only because they come from outside our Universe, from
other plans where laws are different. The Elder Ones are the perfect
example of alien beings that are completely natural, even if they are
completely foreign (not animal nor vegetal, able to re-live after being
frozen for millennia, etc...). That's exactly what I do in my stories
(even if in mine, the Universe is a little bit easier to live in :) ):
there is no supernatural, even magic has its place in the Universe.

> >
> >
> >
> >        I know there is the Dapnant, the language of the lizard-people of
> >Lovecraft, but I don't have the URL here. Check my webpage it's on my
> >list of links. Or is the designer of Dapnant here on the list?
>
> Interesting. I think I have visited that page once or twice. . Oh and did
> you know that Miskatonic University has a webpage? :)
>
> it's at: http://www.miskatonic.net/
>
        I've bookmarked it. I'll see it when I have more time for it.

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