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The Adventure of the Giant Squid (c.1939) by NC Wyeth.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mix of the week is a superb XLR8R Podcast 860<\/a> by Kenneth James Gibson. Elsewhere there’s DreamScenes \u2013 July 2024<\/a> at Ambientblog, and Deep Breakfast Mix 267<\/a> at A Strangely Isolated Place.<\/p>\n

\u2022 A trailer for a restored print of Time Masters<\/em><\/a> (1982), the second animated feature by Ren\u00e9 Laloux, with character designs\/decor by Moebius. Now do Gandahar<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Coming soon from Strange Attractor: Music From Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes From Mythical Beings, Hidden Worlds, and Other Curious Sources<\/em><\/a> by Doug Skinner.<\/p>\n

Not only a prolific lyricist, Lovecraft considered his main vocation to be poetry. And at its best, his verse can be judged an apt expression of his philosophical vision, in which cosmic horror embodies the predicament of all sentient beings in a meaningless universe. That Lovecraft\u2019s poetry never reaches the heights attained by such Modernists as T.S. Eliot or Ezra Pound should not diminish the fact that his is verse that, in the most archaic of ways, advances a startlingly modern metaphysic, a poetic encapsulation of what Thomas Ligotti in The Conspiracy Against the Human Race<\/em> describes as an affirmation that the universe is a \u201cplace without sense, meaning, or value.\u201d Lovecraft, with his antiquated prosody and his anti-human ethics, presented readers with a type of counter-modernist poetry. Ironically, he is the radical culmination of William Carlos Williams\u2019s injunction of \u201cNo ideas but in things;\u201d he is an author for whom there are only things. Graham Harman in Lovecraft and Philosophy<\/em> describes Lovecraft as a \u201cviolently anti-idealist\u201d who \u201claments the inability of mere language to depict the deep horrors his narrators confront.\u201d Unpleasant stuff, for sure. It is verse that at best exemplifies something that controversial poet Frederik Seidel called for in the Paris Review<\/em>: \u201cWrite beautifully what people don\u2019t want to hear.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ed Simon<\/a> on The Unlikely Verse of HP Lovecraft<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2022 Among the new titles at Standard Ebooks, the home of free, high-quality, public-domain texts: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward<\/em><\/a>, by HP Lovecraft.<\/p>\n

\u2022 At Spoon & Tamago: An ethereal bubble emerges from a Japanese townhouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 New music: The Head As Form\u2019d In The Crier\u2019s Choir<\/em><\/a> by Sarah Davachi.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mabe Fratti\u2019s favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bubble Rap<\/em><\/a> (1972) by Can | Bubbles<\/a><\/em> (1975) by Herbie Hancock | Reverse Bubble<\/em><\/a> (2014) by Air<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Adventure of the Giant Squid (c.1939) by NC Wyeth. \u2022 Mix of the week is a superb XLR8R Podcast 860 by Kenneth James Gibson. Elsewhere there’s DreamScenes \u2013 July 2024 at Ambientblog, and Deep Breakfast Mix 267 at A Strangely Isolated Place. \u2022 A trailer for a restored print of Time Masters (1982), the … Continue reading “Weekend links 735”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2,42,29,22,48,26,3,41],"tags":[3295,2271,13219,9364,3252,1687,3450,13574,13575,77,895,8776,8813],"class_list":["post-27149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-art","category-books","category-electronica","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-lovecraft","category-music","category-sculpture","tag-air-group","tag-can-group","tag-doug-skinner","tag-ed-simon","tag-herbie-hancock","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-jean-giraud-moebius","tag-kenneth-james-gibson","tag-mabe-fratti","tag-nc-wyeth","tag-rene-laloux","tag-sarah-davachi","tag-strange-attractor-press"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-73T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}