"I shall arise and go now, and go to Innsmouth"

[thewronghands]

Falling out of a discussion of Poe's short stories with ravenblack, ravenblack pointed out Yeats's opinion that "The Pit and the Pendulum" "[does] not seem to me to have permanent literary value of any kind... Analyse the Pit and the Pendulum and you find an appeal to the nerves by tawdry physical affrightments." ravenblack then went on to say that he only knew Yeats through

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[ravenblack]

Just to be clear, I'm not a rambling lunatic replying to things that were never said, she just omitted a lot of her words because they didn't contribute to the point she was presenting here. So my "is more the thing" did make sense in original context.

[thewronghands]

Ah, sorry, yes, my abbreviation fault entirely. I was trying to condense on point, and yeah.

That is, I mean, maybe you are! Do you hear the bees all night, susurrating like the lake waters?

(I'm not doing Lovecraft well, am I?)

[ravenblack]

Susurrating is more like Poe I think.

[duathir]

The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland would be easier to adapt to Lovecraft's style.

[lyssabard]

I await the fruits of this experiment with great joy!

[ravenblack]

The story given omits that the reason for my mentioning my unfamiliarity with Yeats was not to brag of my ill-read-ness, but rather I was saying re: Yeats' claim that Poe doesn't "have permanent literary value of any kind" that the Pit and the Pendulum, on which he was specifically commenting, has at least six movie versions over a hundred years and is well known, in addition to all Poe's other continuing media presence right through to occupying more than one Simpsons episode and another movie released just this year, where in comparison Yeats has ... a single Cranberries song.

Or in modern parlance, "who has no permanent literary value of any kind now, bitch?!"

[rosefox]

If you unlock this, I will point sovay to it.

[thewronghands]

Hee! Sure.