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[darchildre]

Things I find irrationally endearing:

Horror writers who use the word "cyclopean". Possibly, it is supposed to be a scary word. Alas, that doesn't so much work for me. But I love it nonetheless.


Things I should know better than to do:

Eat breakfast while reading Lovecraftian horror. (Fungus and bloated frogs and strange puddles of milky fluid and suddenly I am not so hungry anymore, y'know?)

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[dpfesh]

(Hi i'm a newbie to your journal)
I read this short story called "Fungus" last year, i think.. and if mushrooms didn't totally gross me out already they would after reading that book. ~shudder~

Yay horror stories! (er, unless you're eating, heh)

[darchildre]

(Hello! I'm pleased to make your acquaintance.)

I've gradually learned not to read actual-factual Lovecraft while eating as there's something about his prose that just gives me the visceral willies. In a good way, generally, but not during meals. I will not have to expand the list to include TED Klein.

[afuna]

I once made the mistake of reading Lovecraft in the dark near midnight when I was the only person in the house.

I ended up turning on a couple of lights, closing the curtains, and curling up with something more... comforting. Story didn't involve curtains/windows, just the darkness of a tomb, but the curtains needed closing anyway!

(Though I can't say I ever managed to bring Lovecraft with me to the breakfast table -- yet *G*)

[darchildre]

I can understand needing to close the curtains - better not to be able to see the awful and infinite blackness outside, right? 8) I read The Color Out of Space once in a dark and empty and echoing basement and gods, I am never doing that again.

(I have a bad habit of bringing whatever my current books is with me to the breakfast table, without necessarily thinking about how the subject matter will affect the meal.)

[silveradept]

One also notes the Cyclops had one eye. So, unless it really was a one-eyed (one horned, flying purple people eater) monster, that word has no business being near it.

And Lovecraft for breakfast? Yeah, you need the iron stomach to pull that one off.

(Also, hi from non-fandom friending meme.)

[darchildre]

Hello!

I believe cyclopean can also mean gigantic or vast, as in (to use a thematically appropriate example) "cyclopean and many-columned Yha-nthlei".

[silveradept]

That, too. I guess I think there are better words. Although, maybe as a horror writer, you're trying to deliberately invoke the image of the cyclops, in all his Homeric terror. Although, that particular Cyclops wasn't the sharpest stake in the bag.