... Jesper may be putting it a bit strongly, but I feel I should respond to that. The Deep Ones have cities, artifacts and language. They have an impulse that...
http://www.geocities.com/vadyanclique/oceanpoems.html Henry Beston's words are to be read there. The first poems after those 2 paragraphs, are from Matthew...
... And this is the very objection against it! Not that it is "not subtle horror", or anything else, but that it ascribes human values and systems to beings...
... I think that you might be going up the wrong tree with the subtle horror stuff myself. Lovecraft was about as subtle as a ball peen hammer sometimes....
... Oh, I absolutely agree - but there is no need for Mythos horror to be unsubtle just because it avoids anthrophocentric viewpoints expressed by aliens. On...
... Ever get the feeling you shot yourself in the foot while your foot was in your mouth...? I mean, everyone is entitled to their own take on the Mythos. My...
... This is entirely irrelevant to the conversation. These *things* that we are talking about here are *things.* They are inhuman by their nature. You cannot...
... Um, no we aren't. Something being humanoid in appearance doesn't make them semi-human. This is probably where your disconnect is coming from in this entire...
... Lin Carter first described the Yuggya in "Out of the Ages", published 1975 and reprinted in "The Xothic Legend Cycle". It is possible that your cousin also...
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Russell Rayburn
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Dec 31, 2006 3:25 am
... Someone go check Hell. I'm sure it just froze over. Chris and I agree. -- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and...
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Russell Rayburn
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Dec 31, 2006 3:26 am
... Wow. You really don't get it, do you? The Deep Ones DO NOT have religion as we know it. They may worship Cthulhu and/ or Dagon, but that is not religion...
Damn it, man! We were saving that one for the party! ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Russell Rayburn
rusrayburn@...
Dec 31, 2006 6:12 am
... Good thing. I hate driving to Cleveland. Shitty town. -- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel...
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Russell Rayburn
rusrayburn@...
Dec 31, 2006 6:18 am
... No worries Laurel. Turns out they're real easy to catch. ;) -- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel...
Hi Everybody, This is slightly off topic, but I just played a rousing round of Do You Worship Cthulhu with 8 of my friends and decided to run it online. I've...
... The dog ate my homework? Sorry... the dog ate the pallet of new books? ;-) Dom ... "If his body was a temple, it was one of those strange ones where ...
... "Jesus... built my printing press. It's a love affair... mostly Jesus." ah, fuck it _________________________________________________________________ Dave...
Sunday, 31 December 2006 The "Other Nations" thread has a low signal-to-noise ratio. Please, voluntarily refrain from posting new messages to that thread for...
One thing I found with the recent thread which involved a lot of discussion about anthropomorphization of Mythos creatures was that it found me vocalizing and...
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Russell Rayburn
rusrayburn@...
Dec 31, 2006 8:27 pm
... I doubt it. More likely PC'd pablum. -- Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. - Mel Brooks...
“After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being. Nature had played a hellish jest on them -...
