Aloha,
Ty Falk wrote:
> Indeed. The thing that always baffled me about the mythos is why would
> anyone would want to deal with deities whose expressed purpose is our
> destruction.
I'm not sure. I first read some of Lovecraft's stories when I was a
teen aged science fiction and fantasy fan. I found them captivating
for a number of reasons. They tapped into occulture/horror themes.
They had a patina of verisimilitude, with their references to books
locked up in libraries and a creepy New England countryside. They
got into questions of cultural decadence and biological devolution.
They poked around in matters of sanity vs. losing it as one's exposure
to bigger/deeper/meaner occulture matters irreversibly increases.
And they were heaps of fannish fun.
The destruction part did not appear so unreal to me, or so threatening.
I grew up at ground zero, close by (a mlie or so) a shipyard that built
and repaired nuclear submarines. Compared to the multiple megatons
of Soviet warheads aimed at my hometown, Cthulhu and the other Mythos
entities actually didn't seem so bad--in real world destroying terms.
Musing Who Is Dangerous? Cthulhu? Or MAD Nuclear Physicist
Who Lives Down The Road? Rose,
Pitch
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