(urth) The outsider (Lovecraft)

[Fred Kiesche]

HPL walked the streets of Paris with Poe. In a dream.


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:55 PM, António Marques <entonio at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, of course. My choice of words is due to the fact hat 1) I don't get
> this Wolfean linguistic ring from the rest of HPL and 2) tho I agree many
> of the piece's elements are quite inspired by Poe, I don't think it would
> have been written by Poe. Can't quite say why. I can see Poe writing 'The
> Music of Erich Zann', or any of the stories that revolve around corpses,
> but for some reason not this one.
>
>
> On 30 June 2014 16:47, Fred Kiesche <godelescherbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> If it's Wolfean, then Wolfe is Lovecraftian and--more to the
>> core--Poesian, as this was definitely one of Eich-Pee-El's pieces most
>> inspired by E.A. Poe.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:43 AM, António Marques <entonio at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi.
>>> For some reason, I'd never read this short piece. Now I'm trying to fill
>>> the blanks in some authors, I've come across it:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(short_story)
>>> http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/o.aspx
>>>
>>> And you know what? The language rings very Wolfean. At first sight, it's
>>> a lame gothic tale. And there's really nothing hidden below that. But it
>>> can also be a lot of things if you want to read them into it.
>>> What I find interesting is that not only it could have been written by
>>> Severian, up to the last word, some imagery is very evocative. And then the
>>> words themselves. I'd have a very hard time believing the corpses that
>>> *strewed* Severian's battlefield came from anywhere else, even if the image
>>> is different, but what got me wondering was if, with such gleaning going
>>> on, the name 'Outsider' has got some connection with this story too. Yes,
>>> at first sight there's no relationship to be found.
>>> I couldn't find any discussion of this story in connection to Wolfe -
>>> after all, why should there be?. Do you know of any? All I could find were
>>> analyses of 'An Evil Guest', which I have yet to read.
>>>
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F.P. Kiesche III

Husband, Father, Good Cook. Reader. Keeper of abandoned dogs. Catholic
Liberal Conservative Militarist. Does not fit into a neat box or category.
"Ah Mr. Gibbon, another damned, fat, square book. Always, scribble,
scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being presented with
Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.) Blogging at Bernal
Alpha. On Twitter as @FredKiesche
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