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Forum: Off Topic 10-17-2017
Replies: 266
Views: 105,595
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Literary News

The subjective versus objective dichotomy leaves out the possibility of social meaning. I was trying to get at this with my Shakespeare scenario, but my comment was posted incomplete due to having to...
Forum: Thomas Ligotti 10-17-2017
Replies: 94
Views: 49,019
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: S.T. Joshi says....

Not saying that it isn't so, but in that case exact same thing can be said about certain group of UK and UK-born writers who frequent (or have used to frequent) this board.[/QUOTE]

Michael...
Forum: Off Topic 10-16-2017
Replies: 266
Views: 105,595
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Literary News

Imagine if Hamlet was brought to life - would he be upset that his suffering was used for generations of entertainment, or would he cash in on the celebrity, maybe become a spokesman for Neosporin or...
Forum: General Discussion 10-15-2017
Replies: 2,364
Views: 930,041
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Recent Reading

In hindsight, it's not that large of a gap between his novels and satirical shorts - The Golem's narrative is framed with the tongue-in-cheek notion of hats transferring memories etc.
Forum: Thomas Ligotti 10-15-2017
Replies: 94
Views: 49,019
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: S.T. Joshi says....

I originally learned about Ligotti through Joshi, and I appreciate his role in helping Lovecraft obtain better literary recognition, but I never cared much for his literary criticism and now he's...
Forum: General Discussion 10-14-2017
Replies: 2,364
Views: 930,041
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Recent Reading

I'm two stories into Damian Murphy's Daughters of Apostasy and enjoyed it enough to buy other works by Murphy.

I've also been dipping into Gustav Meyrink's The Opal and Others - a strong...
Forum: Off Topic 10-14-2017
Replies: 266
Views: 105,595
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Literary News

Interesting - I knew a little bit about the Natural Law Party and assumed it was a personality-based splinter from the Libertarian Party, but it's apparently Libertarianism overlaid with a heavy does...
Forum: Personal 10-13-2017
Replies: 1,200
Views: 510,010
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: What Makes You Laugh?

My girlfriend and I have been watching Daisy Brown's channel on Youtube - she claims that she's a 19 year old girl who's been locked up for most of her life with only a mutant created by her father...
Forum: Off Topic 10-13-2017
Replies: 266
Views: 105,595
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Literary News

The one person I knew who was into NLP and transcendental meditation was also a hardcore Objectivist. Lynch is also something of an Objectivist or libertarian, isn't he?
Forum: Philosophy 10-12-2017
Replies: 3
Views: 6,023
Posted By Speaking Mute
Philipp Mainlander

A Reddit user is translating excerpts from The Philosophy of Salvation - the preface and passages from throughout the book have already been posted with summary commentary:
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Forum: General Discussion 10-11-2017
Replies: 47
Views: 20,142
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Weird Fiction and the Cult of Obscurity

Given the number of Clive Barker fans that surfaced in the recent Laird Barron/Joshi discussion, I don't think that's a fair assessment of TLO membership. Popularity is also relative: Barron might...
Forum: Rants & Ravings 10-10-2017
Replies: 209
Views: 115,834
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Walter de la Mare Strangers and Pilgrims

Out of the de la Mare collections in print, which would be the best to start with based solely on content?

Are there better OOP collections that might still be found used for a decent prince?
Forum: Other News 10-09-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

I wonder about the scale of Clive Barker's contemporary fan-base and influence? He reached mainstream culture and then seems to have fallen into obscurity. With Anne Rice, I can at least see her...
Forum: Other News 10-08-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

In The Modern Weird Tale, Joshi generally only demands causation when bashing the supernatural. One of Joshi's criticisms of Barker that really irked me was his analysis of Sex, Death, and Starshine...
Forum: Other News 10-08-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

There's a huge difference between the prose poems in Noctuary and leaving elements of a plot mysterious. Again, I don't think Joshi single-handedly pushed the looser narrative structure currently...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 10-08-2017
Replies: 286
Views: 135,691
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: More on Lovecraft

Depending on the language, there simply might not be words that parallel the offensiveness and exclusivity of American derogatory terms for blacks. In Hebrew, for instance, the closest I can think of...
Forum: Other News 10-08-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

I'd say one of major themes in The Modern Weird Tale is that ambiguity alleviates the problems Joshi sees in supernaturalism: yes, he does criticize Aickman as being too random, but he also praises...
Forum: Other News 10-08-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

Ligotti was sharing his views for several years before actually releasing TCAHR - I believe he was even recruiting TLO members to read drafts around the time I started lurking here circa 2008. So I...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 10-07-2017
Replies: 16
Views: 9,126
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Ye H. P. Lovecraft Revisions

This raises a bit of nostalgia for me; there was a period in the late 90's when just about every horror zine out there was illustrated by Allen Koszowksi. Great artist, but I wonder if the his wrists...
Forum: Other News 10-07-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

Maybe I'm just burnt out on Weird Horror, but Joshi's complaints about Barron mirror those I have about the entire genre as it now stands. Indeed, I think Joshi's oblivious to his own influence here;...
Forum: Other News 10-07-2017
Replies: 241
Views: 103,884
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: LAIRD BARRON

The Barron that I've read reminds me too much of Haggard, Merritt, and similar adventure-horror writers from the early 20th century. I happen to like that strain of pulp fiction, but here my feelings...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 10-07-2017
Replies: 286
Views: 135,691
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: More on Lovecraft

I think the biggest issue with Lovecraft's racism at the moment is specifically his attitudes towards blacks - and the reason that so many controversies have arisen here is because of terrible race...
Forum: H. P. Lovecraft 10-04-2017
Replies: 16
Views: 9,126
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Ye H. P. Lovecraft Revisions

That doesn't surprise/shock me as much - Through The Gates of the Silver Key reads like I'd expect Lovecraft to read. It also strikes me as a more mature and vivid rehashing of the concepts in Beyond...
Forum: General Discussion 10-04-2017
Replies: 2,364
Views: 930,041
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: Recent Reading

My current reading is sort of out there:

Artemidorus - The Interpretation of Dreams - a second century dream dictionary.

Elias Ashmole - Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum - a 17th century...
Forum: Other Authors 10-04-2017
Replies: 9
Views: 6,090
Posted By Speaking Mute
Re: What are your feelings about the current wave of Counter-James fiction?

So Counter M.R. James authors would be Furries.
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