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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Aug 21, 2021 12:41:28 GMT
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Clovis Merovingian
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Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
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Politics: Conservative
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Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Aug 21, 2021 13:15:50 GMT
A Texan growing up in a macho, violent, military tinged Scots Irish culture that prizes courage, strength, honor, and heroism writes stories of barbarian warriors of a lost forgotten age heroically fighting enemy combatants and monsters with strength and courage while adhering to a primitive code of honor.
A New England Yankee growing up in a Puritan WASP culture that prizes intellectualism and is haunted by existential post-Christian religiosity contemplates what new advances in science tell him about the cosmos and looks up at the night sky horrified by the indifference of the void that stares back at him. He realizes how insignificant humanity is on our little piece of cosmic space dust in an infinitely vast universe and wonders what kind of horrors lie in the unknown reaches of our reality. He writes of unknowable, unfathomable, unspeakably horrible, and frightening cosmic abominations of whom we mere humans are driven to madness just trying to grasp and who could wipe us out without even noticing.
Two legends that were truly molded by the culture they grew up in. A toast to Robert E. Howard and H.P Lovecraft.
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Aug 21, 2021 14:34:42 GMT
With no doubt I prefer New England, but it doesn't mean I don't honour Texas. Both have their own unique good preferences.
You know, sometimes that too-detailed and ghost-like style of New England can be annoying, while reading R. Howard can be too unbeliavable.
That's why I think we should have variety, that helps us to live. I've read R. Howard's stories, but my heart belongs to H. P. Lovecraft's.
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Clovis Merovingian
Prestige/VIP
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Posts: 2,696
Likes: 1,757
Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Aug 23, 2021 6:11:30 GMT
With no doubt I prefer New England, but it doesn't mean I don't honour Texas. Both have their own unique good preferences. You know, sometimes that too-detailed and ghost-like style of New England can be annoying, while reading R. Howard can be too unbeliavable. That's why I think we should have variety, that helps us to live. I've read R. Howard's stories, but my heart belongs to H. P. Lovecraft's. I must admit that I'm not an avid fiction reader. High functioning autistics like me tend to prefer nonfiction. I am better at writing fiction than reading it. I have read some Lovecraft stories and I liked them. I have read less of Robert E. Howard but I've researched the type of books he writes and found that he shares my sensibilities, ancient barbarians in an age lost to time, puritan witch hunters, Vikings, Cowboys, various historical fiction stories and the like. A man after my own heart. |
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Aug 23, 2021 7:49:52 GMT
With no doubt I prefer New England, but it doesn't mean I don't honour Texas. Both have their own unique good preferences. You know, sometimes that too-detailed and ghost-like style of New England can be annoying, while reading R. Howard can be too unbeliavable. That's why I think we should have variety, that helps us to live. I've read R. Howard's stories, but my heart belongs to H. P. Lovecraft's. I must admit that I'm not an avid fiction reader. High functioning autistics like me tend to prefer nonfiction. I am better at writing fiction than reading it. I have read some Lovecraft stories and I liked them. I have read less of Robert E. Howard but I've researched the type of books he writes and found that he shares my sensibilities, ancient barbarians in an age lost to time, puritan witch hunters, Vikings, Cowboys, various historical fiction stories and the like. A man after my own heart. By the way, do you know that Lovecraft lettered a lot with different writerst at 1920's, and he even headed the literature society club for about two years. And you know what? - I am certain that Lovecraft struggled at in inside, because he was an introvert. And I do understand Lovecraft. He even had a fan base, but all his stories, his short articles, letters, and different notes rather show his closeness. He usually worked at night. I think it reminds us the important principle - even if we love some writers or another famous celebrities, or anyone else, it doesn't mean we agree to spend our time with them daily. A society of them can be annoying. Along with it, I agree with you about few non-finction directions, because they are plenty of them, and a type Lovecraft chose (by the way, I recommend a similar style writers, which were an example for Lovecraft: E. Poe, C. E. Smith, A. Bierce, and Lord Dunseny) hold to less extroversion type. I don't know, but the way how stories are being told (by Lovecraft or anyone else) is important, and it's better when it's being written less sociological. With no doubt I understand why do you like "Shadow over Innsmouth" (surely, I do like it too), so there are some other similar stories which are more introvert, they are: "Call of Cthulhu", "At the Mountains of Madness", "Dagon", "The Outsider", "In the Vault", "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (the longest novel of Lovecraft), "The Haunter of the Dark" (I don't remember exactly, but this novel was celebrated to E. Howard, and it has an epigraph from one of Howard's novels), "In the Walls of Eryx". Also, form C. E. Smith is "The Coming of the White Worm" (has an incredible atmosphere), A. Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (this is the first novel that unbeliavably describes the pre-death agony). |
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Clovis Merovingian
Prestige/VIP
Elder
Posts: 2,696
Likes: 1,757
Meta-Ethnicity: Anglo-American
Ethnicity: Deep Southerner
Country: My State and my Region are my country
Region: The Deep South
Location: South Carolina
Ancestry: Gaelic (patrilineal), English, Ulster Scots/Scots Irish, Scottish, German, Swiss German, Swedish, Manx, Finnish, Norman French/Quebecois (distantly), Dutch (distantly)
Taxonomy: Borreby/Alpine/ Nordid mix
Y-DNA: R-S660/R-DF109
mtDNA: T1a1
Politics: Conservative
Religion: Christian
Hero: Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, James K. Polk
Age: 30
Philosophy: I try to find out what is true as best I can.
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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Aug 23, 2021 9:34:07 GMT
I must admit that I'm not an avid fiction reader. High functioning autistics like me tend to prefer nonfiction. I am better at writing fiction than reading it. I have read some Lovecraft stories and I liked them. I have read less of Robert E. Howard but I've researched the type of books he writes and found that he shares my sensibilities, ancient barbarians in an age lost to time, puritan witch hunters, Vikings, Cowboys, various historical fiction stories and the like. A man after my own heart. By the way, do you know that Lovecraft lettered a lot with different writerst at 1920's, and he even headed the literature society club for about two years. And you know what? - I am certain that Lovecraft struggled at in inside, because he was an introvert. And I do understand Lovecraft. He even had a fan base, but all his stories, his short articles, letters, and different notes rather show his closeness. He usually worked at night. I think it reminds us the important principle - even if we love some writers or another famous celebrities, or anyone else, it doesn't mean we agree to spend our time with them daily. A society of them can be annoying. Along with it, I agree with you about few non-finction directions, because they are plenty of them, and a type Lovecraft chose (by the way, I recommend a similar style writers, which were an example for Lovecraft: E. Poe, C. E. Smith, A. Bierce, and Lord Dunseny) hold to less extroversion type. I don't know, but the way how stories are being told (by Lovecraft or anyone else) is important, and it's better when it's being written less sociological. With no doubt I understand why do you like "Shadow over Innsmouth" (surely, I do like it too), so there are some other similar stories which are more introvert, they are: "Call of Cthulhu", "At the Mountains of Madness", "Dagon", "The Outsider", "In the Vault", "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (the longest novel of Lovecraft), "The Haunter of the Dark" (I don't remember exactly, but this novel was celebrated to E. Howard, and it has an epigraph from one of Howard's novels), "In the Walls of Eryx". Also, form C. E. Smith is "The Coming of the White Worm" (has an incredible atmosphere), A. Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (this is the first novel that unbeliavably describes the pre-death agony). I did read Call of Cthulhu as its the most famous story of H.P Lovecraft's and found it interesting because it deviates from his normal New England setting and has parts that take place in the swamps of Southern Louisiana. I've also read At the Mountains of Madness which took place in Antarctica and if I am not mistaken is an homage to Edgar Allen Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket story. Poe is another fiction writer who's work I actually like to read, a great influence on Lovecraft. |
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Post by Eugene 2.0 on Aug 23, 2021 9:58:19 GMT
By the way, do you know that Lovecraft lettered a lot with different writerst at 1920's, and he even headed the literature society club for about two years. And you know what? - I am certain that Lovecraft struggled at in inside, because he was an introvert. And I do understand Lovecraft. He even had a fan base, but all his stories, his short articles, letters, and different notes rather show his closeness. He usually worked at night. I think it reminds us the important principle - even if we love some writers or another famous celebrities, or anyone else, it doesn't mean we agree to spend our time with them daily. A society of them can be annoying. Along with it, I agree with you about few non-finction directions, because they are plenty of them, and a type Lovecraft chose (by the way, I recommend a similar style writers, which were an example for Lovecraft: E. Poe, C. E. Smith, A. Bierce, and Lord Dunseny) hold to less extroversion type. I don't know, but the way how stories are being told (by Lovecraft or anyone else) is important, and it's better when it's being written less sociological. With no doubt I understand why do you like "Shadow over Innsmouth" (surely, I do like it too), so there are some other similar stories which are more introvert, they are: "Call of Cthulhu", "At the Mountains of Madness", "Dagon", "The Outsider", "In the Vault", "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (the longest novel of Lovecraft), "The Haunter of the Dark" (I don't remember exactly, but this novel was celebrated to E. Howard, and it has an epigraph from one of Howard's novels), "In the Walls of Eryx". Also, form C. E. Smith is "The Coming of the White Worm" (has an incredible atmosphere), A. Bierce's "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (this is the first novel that unbeliavably describes the pre-death agony). I did read Call of Cthulhu as its the most famous story of H.P Lovecraft's and found it interesting because it deviates from his normal New England setting and has parts that take place in the swamps of Southern Louisiana. I've also read At the Mountains of Madness which took place in Antarctica and if I am not mistaken is an homage to Edgar Allen Poe's Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket story. Poe is another fiction writer who's work I actually like to read, a great influence on Lovecraft. Oh, I see. I've read almost all, what Lovecraft has written. I even had learned by heart his 36 soneths "Fungies from Yuggoth" (in Russian translation, and ~14 soneths in original) in 2015. Adventures of A. G. Pym I read after reading the most of Poe's novels, and I think I did not good not starting reading it before, because - I agree with you - have some similarities with Lovecraft. However, Lovecraft himself pointed that he took mostly from Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", while I find this novel not be be so sticky for Lovecraft. For instance, "The Cask of Amontillardo", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and some others are much more closer in its style to what Lovecraft did. Have you read S. King? I'm sure I have, but what's your favourite tales of him? There are plenty, and despite I don't take this novel as good, I've already reread it thrice - "It" two volumes. Because it is scary. And also I like his short novels, like "The Quitters, Inc", "Survivor Type", and some others. |
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