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# [Monk Of Cthulhu!
(DrZaarlon Witchspace To Ra!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:10, archived)
# wuub! wuub! wuub! wuub! wuub! wuub! wuub!
;) woopic
(I helped save b3ta! monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:11, archived)
#
Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn!
Cthulhu fhtagn, Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

*Passes out and lets the random ugly intellectual type be devoured by fishmen*
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:11, archived)
# ALL HAIL!

(I helped save b3ta! pzyko Query failed., Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:12, archived)
# Oooh I like him
I never got the whole Cthulu thing though...
(I helped save b3ta! in vino veritas, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:14, archived)
#
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

I think that means you're screwed.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:16, archived)
# Did Lovecraft write that?
I've never read any.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:18, archived)
# Yep
It's worth looking in to, they're only short stories that are loosely associated. Some are better than others but it's good reading material.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:20, archived)
# the concepts are much better than the actull stories, which are a bit hammy
(I helped save b3ta! monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:21, archived)
# It is often the rather bumbling acount of some over-intelectual fool
who deserves horrific death, true, but there's a certain charm to the clumsy feel to the prose. He holds my interest way better than that over-exposed second rate author Stephen King.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:23, archived)
# i honestly think the world would've been better served
if he hadn't had his breakdown at an early age, and had gone off to get a conventional university education like he planned.
i still think he would've written stories. only they'd have been better ones
(still, his style does improve a bit in his later, longer stories)
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:29, archived)
# He was an extremely messed up individual, yeah.
Shame really, and I absolutely agree, I've got a huge collection of them laid out chronologically and there's a massive quality difference between the early and late stories.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:32, archived)
# I really like the quote above.
I don't completely agree with his conculsions, but I think the general observations are interesting.
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:22, archived)
# *Nods* Totally
The way he explores dream-like worlds where normal physical rules don't apply and makes them reality is quite an interesting one too, and the social Darwinist edge to it all is... well, it's a very interesting reflection of attitudes at the time if nothing else.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:25, archived)
# there's not a pressing need to bother
whereas his ideas were interesting (particularly in basing his horror on actual, material things rather than the realm of ghosties and devils) and have influenced many later ideas in fiction,
it's not like he could actually write very well
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:23, archived)
# ^thus
which is a shame as the ideas are awesome in the dictionary meaning of causing awe
(I helped save b3ta! monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:25, archived)
# Aye
but it can't hurt considering there's very little that comes close to troubling novel-length.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:26, archived)
# yay, elder gods driving us mad
(I helped save b3ta! monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:19, archived)
# I like this
and needed a new wallpaper too
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:21, archived)
# yay
cheeky cthulhu...
(I helped save b3ta! plentyofants more ghee, vicar?, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:24, archived)
# :D
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:25, archived)
# It's just a book by H.P. Lovecraft
I take it you haven't read it?
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:18, archived)
# Well, a series of short stories
Starting with Dagon and including stories like the Call of Cthulhu and Shadow Over Innsmouth, all well worth reading too. The Cthulhu mythos was hijacked by a bunch of clueless tools after Lovecraft died, true, but it doesn't detract from the value of the stories. (Also, the most recent PC game was pretty decent.)
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:19, archived)
# That's great.
Have a click :)
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:15, archived)
# Monk see . . . monk . . . how do you do . . .
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:28, archived)
# Splendid stuff

Have a drink
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 17:26, archived)