This third story is entitled "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family". This is where H.P really shows that he was raised in times of racism. This story takes place in 1852 where Arthur is kidnapped by a goddesses dark skinned servants and taken away. The entire story retells the scene of how beastly these servants were. At the closure of the story is says that in 1913 Arthur Jermyn came back, but not from a plane but in a package from Africa, and inside it was a mummified white ape, with less hair then any ape before it. Showing that spending time in Africa made Arthur De-evolve into an ape like creature.
Most Memorable Line: "Members of the Royal Anthropological Institute burned the thing and threw the locker into a well, and some of them do not admit that Arthur Jermyn ever existed." (Page 10)
Style Shown: A nonfiction environment thrown into a sudden static of fantasy then slammed into a world of it's own completely different and original, almost impossible to describe.
(Exterior Notes: H.P's style changed dramatically, this time it's a goddess not a god, the main character doesn't wake up in a hospital, no curiosity just a raid of "savages". )
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
The Statement of Rudolph Carter (6pages) 2/19
The second story was entitled "The Statement of Rudolph Carter". Again the theme of curiosity killed the cat is shown. Rudolph Carter and an archeologist who's examining a temple in foreign swamps along side with his assistant Warren, a complete nervous wreck who keeps bothering Rudolph all throughout the book to turn back and leave the crumbled ruins. All of a sudden Rudolph blanks out, lands in a hospital staring at the moon and thinks to himself "Waren is dead"
Most Memorable Line: "Beat it! For God's sake, put back the slab and beat it, Carter!" (all throughout the story)
The Style Shown: The Raven (The repeated lines)
(exterior notes: Again, curiosity has put a character into harm and again the main character wakes up in a hospital )
Most Memorable Line: "Beat it! For God's sake, put back the slab and beat it, Carter!" (all throughout the story)
The Style Shown: The Raven (The repeated lines)
(exterior notes: Again, curiosity has put a character into harm and again the main character wakes up in a hospital )
Dagon (6 pages) 2/19
The first story was entitled "Dagon", a retelling of a convoy's exhibition through the eyes of a now suicidal morphine addict who's name isn't given within the story. When the convoy finds hieroglyphs no one seems familiar with, they venture onward only to awake the beast of the deep. The Narrator recalls long tentacles and a large scaly body before he blacks out. The nurse in a San Francisco hospital tells him "You've been attacked by the fish god Dagon".
Most Memorable Line: "Through my terror ran curious reminiscences of Paradise Lose, and of Satan's hideous climb through the unfashioned realms of darkness" (pg.3)
The style shown is an off mix of 1000 Leagues Under the Sea, mixed with Dante's Inferno and mixed with The Pit and the Pendulum
( exterior note: The God's seem to be tangible and leaving creatures, each story might unfold a new god for some purpose. )
Most Memorable Line: "Through my terror ran curious reminiscences of Paradise Lose, and of Satan's hideous climb through the unfashioned realms of darkness" (pg.3)
The style shown is an off mix of 1000 Leagues Under the Sea, mixed with Dante's Inferno and mixed with The Pit and the Pendulum
( exterior note: The God's seem to be tangible and leaving creatures, each story might unfold a new god for some purpose. )
AA proposal (WA #6)
H.P Lovecraft: Maddness to Method
For my American Author Project I would like to read and study Howard Phillips Lovecraft the occult short story horror novelist and the sole creator of the Comicism (like L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics). I’m drawn to this author because I want to broaden my imaginations pallet and feel his odd about aliens being gods and monsters trapped in a thousand year sleep is the next step. The second reason I feel drawn to Lovecraft is because He grew up in the same state I grew up in, Rhode Island, where both of us had the same sensation of being the big fish in the smallest pond in America because his famous quote is “I am Providence”, which may seem a bit cocky but if you ever went or lived in Rhode Island you’d understand that a tadpole here is a Shark there.
I could easily write ten pages on Lovecraft because within his writings are a lot of hidden messages and metaphors. He’s often questioned and still a hot topic on whether he himself was racist or if he just wanted to make a historical connection in his Cthulu series where he has dark skinned aliens with curly tentacles who are slaves to their god Cthulu. Cthulu himself represents god and oppression caused by church and religion he shows this by giving Cthulu the ability to control dreams and portrays this god as a beast with hundreds of tentacles of which absolute evil resonates. Yog Sothoth on the other hand represents truth shown as an entity of bubbles and slime who is said to possess the power to travel through time and space and oversee the universe yet he’s trapped outside the universe never being able to interfere only oversee events. These gods could easily show a meaning of polytheism beliefs that are lost once From that fact alone I could easily pull the argument either way and I could easily almost whimsically blow through that paper talking about the times H.P grew up in and why he might’ve had these thoughts or ideas. My basic plan so far for my paper is to write an introductory to H.P Lovecraft and a brief overview of the three books I’ve read (which would be compilations since his stories are so short). For the following Paragraphs I’ll talk about the issues he brings up in his stories and then pretty much hold a one sided argument that H.P meant to put these metaphors in his stories because he believed in them, or if he just wanted to give some sort of commentary or real world connection between his fantasy worlds and ours.
For the biography I have to read I’ll end up reading two biographies, I’ve seen two in particular that looked equally biased from opposite ends of a spectrum one being “H.P Lovecraft is the greatest writer ever” and the other one might as well had been “R.I.P Lovecraft: stay dead”. I’m doing this not because I feel like giving myself extra work but to take the black and the white from his life because I’m sure each book will hide good/bad things about his life, as I’m sure anyone’s life biography is biased but with both opposite ends of this spectrum I can make a grey out of it and decide for myself what’s myth and what’s legend. I suppose my overall project will be more of an analysis of both H.P Lovecraft the author and Howard Phillips, a man who lived in the dawn of the 20th century. That isn’t to say that the two can’t or aren’t the same person but from what I’ve read a different entity. From reading H.P Lovecraft you can’t help to get the sensation that even now it’s ahead of it’s time, and these books of his were written one hundred years ago, yet his public status was quite sane and intellectual, meaning he probably wasn’t insane but maybe he was trying to be odd or maybe he just kept it to himself, details will probably unfold as I read his biography. In conclusion I’d like to read H.P Lovecraft’s work for my American author project because he meets all the criteria, is an interesting author in history and I feel I could challenge myself with these obscure readings.
For my American Author Project I would like to read and study Howard Phillips Lovecraft the occult short story horror novelist and the sole creator of the Comicism (like L. Ron Hubbard’s Dianetics). I’m drawn to this author because I want to broaden my imaginations pallet and feel his odd about aliens being gods and monsters trapped in a thousand year sleep is the next step. The second reason I feel drawn to Lovecraft is because He grew up in the same state I grew up in, Rhode Island, where both of us had the same sensation of being the big fish in the smallest pond in America because his famous quote is “I am Providence”, which may seem a bit cocky but if you ever went or lived in Rhode Island you’d understand that a tadpole here is a Shark there.
I could easily write ten pages on Lovecraft because within his writings are a lot of hidden messages and metaphors. He’s often questioned and still a hot topic on whether he himself was racist or if he just wanted to make a historical connection in his Cthulu series where he has dark skinned aliens with curly tentacles who are slaves to their god Cthulu. Cthulu himself represents god and oppression caused by church and religion he shows this by giving Cthulu the ability to control dreams and portrays this god as a beast with hundreds of tentacles of which absolute evil resonates. Yog Sothoth on the other hand represents truth shown as an entity of bubbles and slime who is said to possess the power to travel through time and space and oversee the universe yet he’s trapped outside the universe never being able to interfere only oversee events. These gods could easily show a meaning of polytheism beliefs that are lost once From that fact alone I could easily pull the argument either way and I could easily almost whimsically blow through that paper talking about the times H.P grew up in and why he might’ve had these thoughts or ideas. My basic plan so far for my paper is to write an introductory to H.P Lovecraft and a brief overview of the three books I’ve read (which would be compilations since his stories are so short). For the following Paragraphs I’ll talk about the issues he brings up in his stories and then pretty much hold a one sided argument that H.P meant to put these metaphors in his stories because he believed in them, or if he just wanted to give some sort of commentary or real world connection between his fantasy worlds and ours.
For the biography I have to read I’ll end up reading two biographies, I’ve seen two in particular that looked equally biased from opposite ends of a spectrum one being “H.P Lovecraft is the greatest writer ever” and the other one might as well had been “R.I.P Lovecraft: stay dead”. I’m doing this not because I feel like giving myself extra work but to take the black and the white from his life because I’m sure each book will hide good/bad things about his life, as I’m sure anyone’s life biography is biased but with both opposite ends of this spectrum I can make a grey out of it and decide for myself what’s myth and what’s legend. I suppose my overall project will be more of an analysis of both H.P Lovecraft the author and Howard Phillips, a man who lived in the dawn of the 20th century. That isn’t to say that the two can’t or aren’t the same person but from what I’ve read a different entity. From reading H.P Lovecraft you can’t help to get the sensation that even now it’s ahead of it’s time, and these books of his were written one hundred years ago, yet his public status was quite sane and intellectual, meaning he probably wasn’t insane but maybe he was trying to be odd or maybe he just kept it to himself, details will probably unfold as I read his biography. In conclusion I’d like to read H.P Lovecraft’s work for my American author project because he meets all the criteria, is an interesting author in history and I feel I could challenge myself with these obscure readings.
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