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Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 1 Hour Ago
Replies: 293
Views: 136,874
Posted By Knygathin
Re: More on Lovecraft

I see now that Lovecraft used "Esquimau[x]" in the story "Polaris", so I assume that is why Joshi changed the word in "Call of Cthulhu" from Weird Tales, to make Lovecraft's spelling consistent. ...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 14 Hours Ago
Replies: 293
Views: 136,874
Posted By Knygathin
Re: More on Lovecraft

Why was the spelling "Esquimau" used in "The Call of Cthulhu" for Joshi's corrected 9th printing of The Dunwich Horror and Others? According to the note on the texts, no manuscript for "The Call of...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 1 Week Ago
Replies: 293
Views: 136,874
Posted By Knygathin
Re: More on Lovecraft

The Lovecraft Chronicles sounds fairly amusing. Whether or not Lovecraft would have spiraled from a sensitive aesthetic and cultural conservative, into a fullfledged liberal who embraced Hollywood,...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 1 Week Ago
Replies: 293
Views: 136,874
Posted By Knygathin
Re: More on Lovecraft

I wonder ..., if Lovecraft had lived for a few decades more, I assume he would have moved on from Weird Tales, into the changing era of the new science fiction market, under the editorship of the...
Forum: General Discussion 2 Weeks Ago
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

Will future AI robots, having reached an advanced functional state of independency equal to or greater than us and other organic life, demand to have sleep? Sleep is a subtle and mysterious need we...
Forum: Classic Horror 2 Weeks Ago
Replies: 130
Views: 72,786
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Favorite Horror Movies

How do you guys like the colorized version of Night of the Living Dead (1968)? Not exactly natural colors, but I think it is effective. Gives added life to the film, and a kind of bizarre, dreamlike...
Forum: Ligotti Influences 2 Weeks Ago
Replies: 42
Views: 17,511
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Robert E. Howard and Materialism

I read the whole Gollancz collection The Complete Chronicles of Conan: Centenary Edition, from cover to cover, and then found out that it was censored! I hope I will find time eventually to re-read...
Forum: General Discussion 2 Weeks Ago
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,901
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Recent Reading

Yes, that's it. Or rather, a precursor to it: The Aquatic Ape (1982). I think I read it in the late 1980s.

I ought to have read On the Origin of the Species long ago, but did not come around to it...
Forum: Ligotti Influences 2 Weeks Ago
Replies: 42
Views: 17,511
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Robert E. Howard and Materialism

I have the Wordsworth collection The Right Hand of Doom. It was also censored. Del Rey seems to be the only available edition of Howard that is not censored; if one tolerates that almost every page...
Forum: General Discussion 2 Weeks Ago
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,901
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Recent Reading

If there is a God (or at least, a Life force pushing things into animation), Man's puny intellect has it all mixed up with his own morals, needs, and desires, thus anthropomorphizing God. The church...
Forum: Ligotti Influences 3 Weeks Ago
Replies: 42
Views: 17,511
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Robert E. Howard and Materialism

The Grant editions were chopped to pieces; many paragraphs were removed, and text altered to avoid some unpleasant 1930s racist language.
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I have the hardcover Wildside Press editions of...
Forum: General Discussion 3 Weeks Ago
Replies: 2,372
Views: 936,901
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Recent Reading

I just finished reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). It certainly is one of the great classics. The whole book is written as an argument, and it did get tiresome in-between since...
Forum: Off Topic 4 Weeks Ago
Replies: 575
Views: 244,522
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Dark Poetry

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Forum: General Discussion 4 Weeks Ago
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

Perhaps he is a misanthrope. Or a satanist (but they are at least usually concerned with human "pleasure"). Or simply a fatalist, like those who invented the A-bomb. A cold-hearted mad scientist,...
Forum: General Discussion 04-08-2024
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

Hans Moravec is involved and works actively with AI and robotics development. He is at the head of control. Therefore it is only natural that he should have a positive view of where it is leading,...
Forum: General Discussion 04-07-2024
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

Three stories by John W. Campbell address the far distant future of robotics, in a poetic and haunting way:

"The Last Evolution" (1932)
"Twilight" (1934)
"Night" (1935)
Forum: General Discussion 03-11-2024
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

The more advanced they become, the more similar to organic beings they will be. As their interactions with each other become more complicated, it is quite possible they will develop different forms...
Forum: General Discussion 03-09-2024
Replies: 70
Views: 26,185
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Packages from the Postman

It is a good vice. Better than drinking and smoking. Although I must admit it is nice to have a good drink while reading some phantasmagoric books. It heightens the senses, and rapport, as Blackwood...
Forum: Other Authors 03-06-2024
Replies: 54
Views: 32,070
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Algernon Blackwood

"Max Hensig - Bacteriologist and Murderer" is great, except near the end where Blackwood stumbles on the sentences (perhaps he had a few real drinks too many by then?). An interesting, scary, and...
Forum: Philosophy 01-28-2024
Replies: 10
Views: 5,686
Posted By Knygathin
Re: "We exist inside the story that the brain tells itself"

I would have hoped that all of my life, all the meetings I had as a child and the places I spent in as they were then, would have tied neatly together with the here and now into a circle in which...
Forum: Other Authors 01-26-2024
Replies: 54
Views: 32,070
Posted By Knygathin
Re: Algernon Blackwood

Read "Secret Worship". Subtle and convincing build-up. Powerful. Very creepy indeed.

Surprised, and somewhat disappointed, that Blackwood solved the drama by preaching Christian rethorics. And, a...
Forum: Thomas Ligotti 01-24-2024
Replies: 12
Views: 1,727
Posted By Knygathin
Re: New True Detective season ‘Tsalal’

An Arctic research station from which people have disappeared, and Jodie Foster to investigate. Sounds like The Thing. What could go wrong?! I thought Jodie Foster was a sealed guarnatee for quality....
Forum: General Discussion 01-14-2024
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

It seems, to me, logical to assume that engineers will soon make humanoid robots able to withstand tough treatment. Limbs made of strong metal , durable springs, and hard silicone discs between...
Forum: General Discussion 12-15-2023
Replies: 85
Views: 16,614
Posted By Knygathin
Re: A Glimpse of the Future

I heard that China is planning a mass production of humanoid robots, hundreds of thousands, to be put into production, for manual duties, by 2027. In an effort to outperform American competition.
...
Forum: Philosophy 12-09-2023
Replies: 15
Views: 3,237
Posted By Knygathin
Re: English translation of Peter Wessel Zapffe's Om Det Tragiske due 2024

I am looking forward to reading that foreword.
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