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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 1d

— Life is more horrible than death.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 1d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
27 Life and Death.  Death — its desolation and horror — bleak spaces — sea-bottom — dead cities. But Life — the greater horror! Vast unheard-of reptiles and leviathans — hideous beasts of prehistoric jungle — rank slimy vegetation — evil instincts of primal man.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 3d

Bas-Relief

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 4d

Der Traum wird in denselben beiden Briefen erwähnt, wie der von dem Bas-Relief aus Nummer 25.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 4d

Whole army of foe fades into mist, and watcher finds himself to be the English knight on the plain, mounted. Looks at castle, and sees a peculiar concentration of fantastic clouds over the highest battlements.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 4d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
26 Dream of ancient castle stairs—sleeping guards—narrow window—battle on plain between men of England and men of yellow tabards with red dragons. Leader of English challenges leader of foe to single combat. They fight. Foe unhelmeted, but there is no head revealed.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 6d

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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 6d

Add good development and describe nature of bas-relief. [Cthulhu]

Die Idee basiert auf einem in zwei Briefen erwähnten Traum (HPL to the Gallomo, c. April 1920 and HPL to Rheinhart Kleiner, May 21, 1920).

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 6d

Asks who the man may be. He tells modern name. “No — before that” says curator. Man does not remember except in dreams. Then curator offers high price, but man fears he means to destroy sculpture. Asks fabulous price — curator will consult directors.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 6d

‘dreams are older than brooding Egypt or the contemplative Sphinx or garden-girdled Babylonia’

and that he had fashioned the sculpture in his dreams. Curator bids him shew his product, and when he does so curator shews horror.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 6d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
25 Man visits museum of antiquities — asks that it accept a bas-relief he has just made — old and learned curator laughs and says he cannot accept anything so modern. Man says that

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 6d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
24 Dunsany — "Go-By Street":  Man stumbles on dream world — returns to earth — seeks to go back — succeeds, but finds dream world ancient and decayed as though by thousands of years.

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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 7d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
23 The man who would not sleep — dares not sleep — takes drugs to keep himself awake. Finally falls asleep — and something happens. Motto from Baudelaire p. 214. [Hypnos]

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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 7d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
22 Mermaid Legend — Encyc. Britt. XVI—40.

Artikel über
MERMAIDS AND MERMEN (Meerjungfrauen und Meermänner)
Encyclopædia Britannica, 9. Aufl., Band 16, Seite 39 und 40

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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 9d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
21 A very ancient colossus in a very ancient desert. Face gone — no man hath seen it.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 9d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
20 Man journeys into the past — or imaginative realm — leaving bodily shell behind.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 10d

H.P. Lovecraft: Letters to Robert Bloch and Others
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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 10d

… und darauf entdeckt der Gerichtsmediziner zu seinem Entsetzen das gemalte Gegenstück zu jener Art Klaue, die den Künstler offenbar getötet hat.“
(Lovecrafts Brief an Robert Bloch vom 1. Juni 1933)

S. T. Joshi, David E. Schultz An H P Lovecraft ...
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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 10d

Eines Morgens findet man ihn vor seiner Staffelei, von Krallen zerfetzt und zugerichtet. Das Bild ist zerstört, als hätte ein titanischer Kampf stattgefunden – doch in einer Ecke des Rahmens ist ein Stück Leinwand geblieben

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 10d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
19 Revise 1907 tale — painting of ultimate horror.

"The Picture" ist eine verloren gegangene Geschichte aus dem Jahr 1907.

„Ich ließ in einer Pariser Dachkammer einen Mann ein geheimnisvolles Leinwandgemälde malen, das die Quintessenz allen Grauens verkörperte.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 11d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
18 Calamander-wood — a very valuable cabinet wood of Ceylon and S. India, resembling rosewood.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 12d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
17 Doors found mysteriously open and shut etc. — excite terror.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 12d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
16 The walking dead - seemingly alive, but -.

Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 12d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
15 Bridge and slimy black waters. [Fungi—The Canal]

Die Idee fand ihren Niederschlag in „The Canal“. dem 24. Sonett in H. P. Lovecrafts Sammlung von 36 kosmischen Horrorgedichten mit dem Titel "Fungi from Yuggoth".
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Funduke @fbergien.bsky.social · 13d

Lovecrafts Commonplace Book
14 Hideous sound in the dark.