hpl: bigoted newt, or just misunderstood?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:00 pm

that happens to a lot of guys

i've heard

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:12 pm

Jesus Prime wrote:He couldn't stand up straight, you know.

Thats what he wants you to think

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:15 pm

Jesus Prime wrote:Three lefts.

Well, that explains my inability to follow pirate treasure maps.

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:20 pm

Eternities End wrote:Man I bet Lovecarft could kick all our asses in hand to hand combat...

He was the founder of Shambling Horror Kung Fu you know.

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:32 pm

Yeah, like the guy who thought up Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath had no mental difficulties whatever.
His subconcious must have been a dungheap!
"When you walk into the restaurant,
Down the Innsmouth Road,
And your brain is full of isopods,
And mutant nematodes......."

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:58 pm

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:
Jesus Prime wrote:Three lefts.
Well, that explains my inability to follow pirate treasure maps.

I've explained this before. It's under the 'X'.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 5:02 pm

Wrong...thats were the fake treasure is...the real tresures always under the Y

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:20 pm

But the REALLY good stuff is under the Z.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:30 pm

Yah but how often do you find one of those?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:09 pm

you usually have to go through 25 other ones before you get there

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:41 pm

Sex was pretty well repressed as a topic in HPL's time-at least in the pulps he wrote for.
There were magazines like "Spicy Detective" that had mildly erotic content, Howard and Leiber used s/m themes fairly tastefully, but c'mon, how you gonna get much sex in a story about Azathoth?
HPL was something of a recluse-a solitary and self-contained man, his mother was a dominating and devouring sort of smotherer, he had a lukewarm marriage, and do remember, his father died of syphlis, mad as a march hare.
That alone might have made him shy of sex.
As for racism-ever read Kipling?
The dark skinned villians of the Lovecraft canon have much to do with the somewhat mysterious lives led by people of color in those segregated days.
Also by the exotic cachet of orientals-they were a total mystery to whites then-Dashiell Hammett wrote of them sometimes, and wasn't friendly, either.
Filipinos, Hawiians, Maylays, Hindus and especially any sort of half-caste were usually found in the docklands-which were not nice neighborhoods.
The man is dead, let's not dig him up and chastise him, ok?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:48 pm

you're absolutely right krak..

to change the subject completely, does anyone want to buy a pick-ax, shovel, wheelbarrow, hacksaw or sausage grinder?

Hodgson · Post by **Hodgson** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:00 am

JJ Burke wrote:you're absolutely right krak..

to change the subject completely, does anyone want to buy a pick-ax, shovel, wheelbarrow, hacksaw or sausage grinder?

What'll you take for the sausage grinder? I have 3 thumbtacks and a dusty shoelace.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:11 am

JJ Burke wrote:you're absolutely right krak..

to change the subject completely, does anyone want to buy a pick-ax, shovel, wheelbarrow, hacksaw or sausage grinder?

Well, I already have a shovel...

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:44 am

My friend Hannibal Lecter wants them all, I'll send him over to your house for them....