Comments on: The New Ones https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 01 May 2026 09:53:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: CVLR https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-3000639 CVLR Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:49:24 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-3000639 I have a book of all of Lovecraft’s fictional prose, which I read front to back, and I thought him great fun.

]]> By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2590632 Graham Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:09:06 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-2590632 That was an informative article — never heard that Marlene Dietrich played musical saw as her party piece. What a curious world.

Don’t know about this though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrjT1WOCDTo

The instruments credited in the album cover are acoustic guitar, upright bass, steel guitar, electric guitar, viola, fiddle, and pedal steel.

Granted, I know what most of those are, but I’m no musician so I don’t know the full capabilities of any. Even a viola, that quiet older sister of the classical orchestra, might have hidden dark sides…

Though I don’t think it’s the viola.

]]> By: Scipio Americanus https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2590625 Scipio Americanus Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:55:00 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-2590625 Graham, I believe the instrument you’re thinking of is the musical saw.

]]> By: Graham https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2590624 Graham Wed, 01 Nov 2017 14:38:40 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-2590624 Actually read through all those links again last night, though I recalled some of them from past reading. Used Night on Bald Mountain and Danse Macabre as my office soundtrack at one point yesterday. Plus “Angel of Death” in its recent “The Devil Makes Three” cover version. They do something really eerie with stringed instruments. Don’t know which ones. It’s like rubbing something up and down on a steel guitar.

Still enjoy Lovecraft — agree with Scipio Americanus on the Dreamlands. For some reason, “The Other Gods” and “The Doom that came to Sarnath” remain my favourite Lovecraft stories.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2590621 Isegoria Wed, 01 Nov 2017 13:37:20 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-2590621 Non-Euclidean geometry actually appears in fiction before Lovecraft’s (over)use — in an H.G. Wells story, and in The Brothers Karamazov!

]]> By: Scipio Americanus https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2590610 Scipio Americanus Wed, 01 Nov 2017 03:24:13 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-2590610 Whoops, I’ll admit to not reading that carefully enough; when I copied the quote I read it as non-Euclidian geometry, a term the Old Gent used quite frequently.

I can’t say I recall ever spotting “non-Euclidean algebra” in Lovecraft’s writing, but perhaps my eyes glided over it the same way they did here.

]]> By: Scipio Americanus https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/the-new-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-2590608 Scipio Americanus Wed, 01 Nov 2017 03:21:23 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4255#comment-2590608 Ah, what more appropriate day for a bit of thread necromancy! Happy Halloween, Isegoria :)

“non-Euclidean algebra” (a meaningless but suggestive term)

Gadzooks! What nonsense.

I’ll also admit that I’m probably one of the few people who actually enjoys Lovecraft’s prose, especially the mode he used in the Dreamlands-centered stories.

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