{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5379", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 5379, "subject": "AEG trembling mountains", "messages": 6, "voices": 6, "first": "2009-03-24T16:54:15+00:00", "last": "2009-03-27T05:28:44+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "<15442.67.142.130.43.1237913655.squirrel@brunians.org>", "from": { "name": "brunians at brunians.org", "address": "brunians at brunians.org" }, "date": "2009-03-24T16:54:15+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG trembling mountains", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Ah yes, lost R'lyeh resurfaces.\n\nCthulhu phthaghn!\n\n\n\n\n." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "A couple of news items this week made me think of places in An\nEvil Guest.\n\nThe first was a report of a large quake (7.1 magnitude)\nassociated with the eruption of an undersea volcano--about 130mi\nsoutheast of the main isle of the Tonga group. I seem to recall\nearlier discussions on-list mentioning the Friendly Isles as an\nanalog of Wolfe's Takanga; I don't have much to add to what's\nalready been noticed.\n\nThe second news item was about the fatal accident of actress\nNatasha Richardson at a ski resort in the Laurentians. This\ndirected my attention to Mont Tremblant. In an early chapter of\nAEG, Gid and Cassie drive to a mountain where Gid magnifies\nCassie's natural star quality. We get a clue to the location of\nthe mountain when the black car passes a sign pointing to\n\"Toronto\" and Gid says \"we have to reach Canada and travel\nanother hundred miles.\" Mont Tremblant is about 150 miles from\nthe Vermont border so the distance isn't unreasonably far off.\nDoes Vermont fit the book's geography? Kingsport is a stand-in\nfor Marblehead in Lovecraft's universe, so the natural route to\nMont Tremblant would be by way of I--89 through Vermont. This is\nnot inconsistent with a road sign pointing to Toronto--along the\nway, you'll see at least one sign pointing to Toronto.\n\nWhat cinches it for me is that Mont Tremblant is the home of the\nOrder of the Magnificat of the Mother of God, a religious order\nthat split from the Catholic Church about 100 years ago. It's not\nmuch of a stretch to connect this symbolically to the\nmagnification of Cassie's animal magnetism on the trembling\nmountain.\n\n- Stephen Hoy\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<638615.81747.qm@web37605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Craig Brewer", "address": "cnbrewer at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2009-03-24T17:29:53+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Fechin", "in_reply_to": "<15442.67.142.130.43.1237913655.squirrel@brunians.org>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I did a quick search of the archives and couldn't find anything. So:\n\nAnyone ever talk about whether Nicolai Fechin, a Russian artist who moved to Taos, NM, was in any way a part of Wolfe's Fechin? The Taos Museum of Art is in his house. (Just doing some browsing through old books and came across this.)\n\nhttp://taosartmuseum.org/fechin.php\n\n\n\n " } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Stephen Hoy", "address": "stephenhoy at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2009-03-24T17:39:12+00:00", "subject": "(urth) AEG trembling mountains", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "A couple of news items this week made me think of places in An\nEvil Guest.\n\nThe first was a report of a large quake (7.1 magnitude)\nassociated with the eruption of an undersea volcano--about 130mi\nsoutheast of the main isle of the Tonga group. I seem to recall\nearlier discussions on-list mentioning the Friendly Isles as an\nanalog of Wolfe's Takanga; I don't have much to add to what's\nalready been noticed.\n\nThe second news item was about the fatal accident of actress\nNatasha Richardson at a ski resort in the Laurentians. This\ndirected my attention to Mont Tremblant. In an early chapter of\nAEG, Gid and Cassie drive to a mountain where Gid magnifies\nCassie's natural star quality. We get a clue to the location of\nthe mountain when the black car passes a sign pointing to\n\"Toronto\" and Gid says \"we have to reach Canada and travel\nanother hundred miles.\" Mont Tremblant is about 150 miles from\nthe Vermont border so the distance isn't unreasonably far off.\nDoes Vermont fit the book's geography? Kingsport is a stand-in\nfor Marblehead in Lovecraft's universe, so the natural route to\nMont Tremblant would be by way of I--89 through Vermont. This is\nnot inconsistent with a road sign pointing to Toronto--along the\nway, you'll see at least one sign pointing to Toronto.\n\nWhat cinches it for me is that Mont Tremblant is the home of the\nOrder of the Magnificat of the Mother of God, a religious order\nthat split from the Catholic Church about 100 years ago. It's not\nmuch of a stretch to connect this symbolically to the\nmagnification of Cassie's animal magnetism on the trembling\nmountain.\n\n- Stephen Hoy" } ] }, { "message_id": "<8A371A23-2B5C-46B9-B144-8D69F429DF8D@comcast.net>", "from": { "name": "Steven", "address": "mcquaryq at comcast.net" }, "date": "2009-03-27T02:38:22+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Fechin", "in_reply_to": "<638615.81747.qm@web37605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Craig Brewer wrote:\nAnyone ever talk about whether Nicolai Fechin, a Russian artist who \nmoved to Taos, NM, was in any way a part of Wolfe's Fechin?" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I enjoyed the link...and of course, that was the first thing I \nthought of too. The Russian/American was known for his highly \nvirtuostic technique. But was he Wolfe's model? Does anyone here know?\n\nSteven Bowen\nhttp://bowenfinearts.com/" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Son of Witz", "address": "sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org" }, "date": "2009-03-27T05:01:15+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Fechin", "in_reply_to": "<638615.81747.qm@web37605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Nicolai Fechin:\n\nThecla?\nhttp://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/FechinN/FechinNFile/FechinNPics/NFechin3.html\nhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2315769186_d1dc8d7a5d.jpg?v=0\n\nKarloff Baldanders via Fechin?\nhttp://images.npg.org.uk:8080/OCimg/790_500/5/3/mw07553.jpg\n\n??witz" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Craig Brewer wrote:\n\nI did a quick search of the archives and couldn't find anything. So:\n\nAnyone ever talk about whether Nicolai Fechin, a Russian artist who \nmoved to Taos, NM, was in any way a part of Wolfe's Fechin? The Taos \nMuseum of Art is in his house. (Just doing some browsing through old \nbooks and came across this.)\n\nhttp://taosartmuseum.org/fechin.php\n\n\n\n\n_______________________________________________" } ] }, { "message_id": "<868885.49607.qm@web50701.mail.re2.yahoo.com>", "from": { "name": "Jerry Friedman", "address": "jerry_friedman at yahoo.com" }, "date": "2009-03-27T05:28:44+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Fechin", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "header", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "--- On Thu, 3/26/09, Son of Witz wrote:\nNicolai Fechin:\n\nThecla?\nhttp://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/FechinN/FechinNFile/FechinNPics/NFechin3.html\nhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2315769186_d1dc8d7a5d.jpg?v=0" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Agia?" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Karloff Baldanders via Fechin?\nhttp://images.npg.org.uk:8080/OCimg/790_500/5/3/mw07553.jpg" }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Master Palaemon?\n\n\nJerry\n\n\n " } ] } ] }