AEG trembling mountains The Urth list — 6 messages, 6 voices, 24 Mar 2009 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5379 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. ============================================================================== brunians at brunians.org — 24 Mar 2009, 16:54 in reply to Stephen Hoy Ah yes, lost R'lyeh resurfaces. Cthulhu phthaghn! . > A couple of news items this week made me think of places in An > Evil Guest. > > The first was a report of a large quake (7.1 magnitude) > associated with the eruption of an undersea volcano--about 130mi > southeast of the main isle of the Tonga group. I seem to recall > earlier discussions on-list mentioning the Friendly Isles as an > analog of Wolfe's Takanga; I don't have much to add to what's > already been noticed. > > The second news item was about the fatal accident of actress > Natasha Richardson at a ski resort in the Laurentians. This > directed my attention to Mont Tremblant. In an early chapter of > AEG, Gid and Cassie drive to a mountain where Gid magnifies > Cassie's natural star quality. We get a clue to the location of > the mountain when the black car passes a sign pointing to > "Toronto" and Gid says "we have to reach Canada and travel > another hundred miles." Mont Tremblant is about 150 miles from > the Vermont border so the distance isn't unreasonably far off. > Does Vermont fit the book's geography? Kingsport is a stand-in > for Marblehead in Lovecraft's universe, so the natural route to > Mont Tremblant would be by way of I--89 through Vermont. This is > not inconsistent with a road sign pointing to Toronto--along the > way, you'll see at least one sign pointing to Toronto. > > What cinches it for me is that Mont Tremblant is the home of the > Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God, a religious order > that split from the Catholic Church about 100 years ago. It's not > much of a stretch to connect this symbolically to the > magnification of Cassie's animal magnetism on the trembling > mountain. > > - Stephen Hoy > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Craig Brewer — 24 Mar 2009, 17:29 in reply to brunians at brunians.org I did a quick search of the archives and couldn't find anything. So: Anyone 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.) http://taosartmuseum.org/fechin.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Hoy — 24 Mar 2009, 17:39 A couple of news items this week made me think of places in An Evil Guest. The first was a report of a large quake (7.1 magnitude) associated with the eruption of an undersea volcano--about 130mi southeast of the main isle of the Tonga group. I seem to recall earlier discussions on-list mentioning the Friendly Isles as an analog of Wolfe's Takanga; I don't have much to add to what's already been noticed. The second news item was about the fatal accident of actress Natasha Richardson at a ski resort in the Laurentians. This directed my attention to Mont Tremblant. In an early chapter of AEG, Gid and Cassie drive to a mountain where Gid magnifies Cassie's natural star quality. We get a clue to the location of the mountain when the black car passes a sign pointing to "Toronto" and Gid says "we have to reach Canada and travel another hundred miles." Mont Tremblant is about 150 miles from the Vermont border so the distance isn't unreasonably far off. Does Vermont fit the book's geography? Kingsport is a stand-in for Marblehead in Lovecraft's universe, so the natural route to Mont Tremblant would be by way of I--89 through Vermont. This is not inconsistent with a road sign pointing to Toronto--along the way, you'll see at least one sign pointing to Toronto. What cinches it for me is that Mont Tremblant is the home of the Order of the Magnificat of the Mother of God, a religious order that split from the Catholic Church about 100 years ago. It's not much of a stretch to connect this symbolically to the magnification of Cassie's animal magnetism on the trembling mountain. - Stephen Hoy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven — 27 Mar 2009, 02:38 in reply to Craig Brewer > On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Craig Brewer wrote: > Anyone ever talk about whether Nicolai Fechin, a Russian artist who > moved to Taos, NM, was in any way a part of Wolfe's Fechin? I enjoyed the link...and of course, that was the first thing I thought of too. The Russian/American was known for his highly virtuostic technique. But was he Wolfe's model? Does anyone here know? Steven Bowen http://bowenfinearts.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Son of Witz — 27 Mar 2009, 05:01 in reply to Craig Brewer Nicolai Fechin: Thecla? http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/FechinN/FechinNFile/FechinNPics/NFechin3.html http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2315769186_d1dc8d7a5d.jpg?v=0 Karloff Baldanders via Fechin? http://images.npg.org.uk:8080/OCimg/790_500/5/3/mw07553.jpg ??witz > On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Craig Brewer wrote: > > I did a quick search of the archives and couldn't find anything. So: > > Anyone 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.) > > http://taosartmuseum.org/fechin.php > > > > > _______________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Friedman — 27 Mar 2009, 05:28 in reply to Son of Witz > --- On Thu, 3/26/09, Son of Witz wrote: > Nicolai Fechin: > > Thecla? > http://artscenecal.com/ArtistsFiles/FechinN/FechinNFile/FechinNPics/NFechin3.html > http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2340/2315769186_d1dc8d7a5d.jpg?v=0 Agia? > Karloff Baldanders via Fechin? > http://images.npg.org.uk:8080/OCimg/790_500/5/3/mw07553.jpg Master Palaemon? Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------