Comments on: A Thing For Man To Not Know: Cyclopean

By: Anonymousity

Anonymousity — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:21:48 +0000

@ Casimir’s Blake As the iron tower people are basically diametrically opposed to pointless encounters I doubt there will be any grind, just intrigue!

By: clive dunn

clive dunn — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:54:41 +0000

Surely Lovecraft had a duvet to hide under? Pussy!

only kidding. The guy was a class A genius

By: noah_j

noah_j — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:17:18 +0000

^^^ which was of course in response to adam t’s lovecraft text adventure

By: noah_j

noah_j — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:16:21 +0000

oh ho ho oh my that is terrific

By: phil

phil — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:29:26 +0000

Sorry if I baffled you, I agree it isn’t bad provided you don’t actually think about what you are reading or the author’s intent behind his words.

Even judging him by the standards of his own time he was a dingbat, in both his beliefs and conduct. My point is that acknowledging this wrong headed dingbattyness and how it influenced someone who is undoubtly an astonishingly adept story teller, is half the fun of Lovecraft.

By: Adam T

Adam T — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:41:58 +0000

Thanks to the last line of the summary I now envision a game whose object is to continue on as long as possible without accidentally learning of forbidden knowledge. It might go like…

> You are in the front entry way of your house. There is a front door to the north, Stairway going up, and Living Room to the East.
Open door.
> While opening the door you notice that you have mail. There is an envelope of what looks like very old parchment, covered by elaborately curled script. Do you want to take it?
no
> It looks very interesting…
no
> Your eyes seem drawn to the mysterious envelope
OPEN DOOR
> The door is now open. On the porch is Professor Barnabus. His eyes dart furtively, and he seems to have something he wants to tell you.
go around professor
> The Professor blocks your way. He begins speaking to you about a strange shap, made of a colour you’ve never seen…
FLEE
> You flee upstairs to the library. There are many books here. One that you had never noticed before lies open on a table. Your eyes flit across the open pages…
Look out window
>You tear your gaze from the book and look out the window. A shape moves away just as you look. There is a slimy substance on the windowframe.

Etc. Etc.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:38:47 +0000

As long it’s accompanied by some unspeakable gibberings in the background

By: Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar the Peaceful — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:32:34 +0000

Excellent. Thanks for the link. I’ll give these a shot.

By: Edgar the Peaceful

Edgar the Peaceful — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:28:28 +0000

Not to mention gibbous

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:59:44 +0000

Mindblowing typo on my behalf. I have shamed my ancestors.
You are correct. He was afraid of most things, not just immigrants.

By: The Great Wayne

The Great Wayne — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:02:29 +0000

You mean Howard, I guess.

Anyway, Lovecraft was more than on the verge of mental illness, and xenophobia in his case took it’s full, pathological meaning, not the usual congenital stupidity that the lambda homo sapiens carries on his back which we’re denominating by the same word these days.

I don’t know if it’s more forgiveable, not that I care anyway, but I think it was worth the precision.

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:56:54 +0000

Lovecraft anything please. I’m still really, really miffed Headfirst didn’t get to do their Dark corners of the earth sequel. That there was a GAME.

By the way, anyone not up to date on good ol’ amiably racist Harold we all like to forgive, check out http://www.hppodcraft.com – One of my favorite podcasts these days