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Post by shawnhartnell on Apr 2, 2015 22:33:59 GMT -6
Hell of a round-up. I think you're onto something.
The first alter-ego of Lovecraft was the main character in "The Tomb", his first story. That was someone metaphorically trying to get understand his own subconscious from the outside. He was trying to get into the Tomb.
Then came the story "Dagon" which was the first time he had envisioned what lays underneath the sea. This was also symbolic of the subconscious.
What I think he did was take his literary avatar from The Tomb, inverted it, put it in the undersea world of "Dagon".
That's a fairly accurate description of Cthulhu: entombed in the underwater city of R'lyeh, dreaming, and trying to get OUT. Essentially what I think he did here was to create an avatar for his own shadow. Oddly, The Tomb and Dagon were his first stories and Cthulhu didn't appear in his stories until much later. I still have a lot of reading to do to figure out the whole shebang.
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Post by shawnhartnell on Apr 4, 2015 2:35:27 GMT -6
Holy shit. Well done.
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Post by shawnhartnell on Apr 4, 2015 20:00:07 GMT -6
Would you like to split this into a new thread so it has it's own and doesn't interfere with the original point of your thread?
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Post by Padowan on Apr 6, 2015 10:42:52 GMT -6
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Post by shawnhartnell on Apr 6, 2015 10:48:50 GMT -6
My bad, I have to do that. Give me a bit.
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