tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post53137191707081495..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: Lovecraft's BlogJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-82244144255917656592013-09-15T12:28:06.701-07:002013-09-15T12:28:06.701-07:00Like Poe, Lovecraft was a tortured soul that conte...Like Poe, Lovecraft was a tortured soul that contemplated suicide more than once, and explored dark feelings of aggression and depression through his characters. It is not surprising then that he found some twisted sense of "honor" and "chivalry" in the Klan. <br /><br />I find Lovecraft a creature of paradoxes. His racism was contradictory with some of his other ideas.Martin Alvarez Milanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993182797013085271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-54047634572229618782013-09-15T12:25:26.467-07:002013-09-15T12:25:26.467-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Martin Alvarez Milanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17993182797013085271noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-64157613982157991692012-05-30T18:34:05.255-07:002012-05-30T18:34:05.255-07:00John,
I'm glad I'm not the only one who f...John,<br /><br />I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds HPL's racism worth examining.<br /><br />I wrote a book that (among other things) critiques his racism. Learn about it here: www.shadowoutofprovidence.com .<br /><br />--Ezra ClaverieK. K. Rotwanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09286666286877049917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-66094123385213299932012-03-24T20:15:11.166-07:002012-03-24T20:15:11.166-07:00Were there apas devoted just to Tolkien?
In the 1...Were there apas devoted just to Tolkien?<br /><br />In the 1970s I contributed to an apa called Elanor, which I believe was founded by Paul S. Ritz. It was more a fantasy-in-general apa than specifically a Tolkienian one, and some contributors, such as a NASA employee named Harry Andruschak, didn't even write very much about fantasy -- again, I'm going by memory. I would imagine that where fanzines were ephemeral compared to regular magazines, apazines were ephemeral compared to fanzines. As mailings accumulated, closet space filled, and so probably others did as I did and eventually threw away or (let us hope) recycled most of their mailings. <br /><br />A great deal of what we wrote for our apazines really was just blog entry-type stuff, and (present company excepted) blog entries are of passing interest. The apazines were printed in small numbers, smaller than for fanzines; I suppose that for Elanor I printed around 20 copies of a 'zine (by ditto). <br /><br />Also, apazines, for all their typical informality, didn't have the intimate interest that might prompt someone to save letters.<br /><br />So, falling between letters and fanzines, in a way, apazines were likely to be casualties of house cleaning. Given the adolescent brashness sometimes committed to ditto or mimeo in these things, some of us will hope that our 'zines do not still lurk in people's basements, attics, and closets -- !Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-87729098473283014732012-03-24T15:10:23.891-07:002012-03-24T15:10:23.891-07:00The apas that Lovecraft belonged to would have bee...The apas that Lovecraft belonged to would have been unbound bundles of individual publications on various sizes and colors of paper, many of them rather long, and not the stapled collection of a few sheets from each contributor that you'd have seen in recent apas. In those days, I think the individual contributions (the sf-fan term for these is "apazines"; "apa" means the whole mailing or the corporate entity) have been mostly handprinted letterset rather than mimeographed.<br /><br />Amateur publishing (in those days as often called amateur journalism, or ayjay for short) began with people who were more interested in practicing and showing off their printing skills than in anything they had to say. Gradually, apas began attracting people like HPL who were at least equally interested in content, and conversations went on rather in the manner of newspaper editorials responding to news stories, but it was not until some science fiction fans (including Donald A. Wollheim, later of Ace Books fame) joined in the late 1930s that they invented "mailing comments", direct responses to items in the previous mailing, equivalent to blog comments like this one. Wollheim and the others then went on to create the first sf apas, where the form flourished for some 50 years with its own protocols and customs, rather different from those of what fandom called "the mundane apas", i.e. the pre-fannish ones of the kind that HPL belonged to.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-61161149401451261172012-03-24T14:48:00.202-07:002012-03-24T14:48:00.202-07:00Here's a link to a piece about apa's; the ...Here's a link to a piece about apa's; the first paragraph or two shd tell you all you need to know.<br /><br />http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~gsj/Kaje/APAs.html<br /><br />The apa I'm most familiar with is the long-running D&D/rpg apa ALARUM AND EXCURSIONS, but I know there have been Tolkien apas in the past -- both Taum Santoski and David Bratman belonged to one in the long-ago.<br /><br />Most of the ones I've seen consisted of mimeographed pages, with each contributor's section done in a different color paper; don't have a v. clear idea what they looked like in Lovecraft's day.<br /><br />--JDRJohn D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-61884096237092991252012-03-24T13:41:24.793-07:002012-03-24T13:41:24.793-07:00'Amateur press association', I gather.'Amateur press association', I gather.Murilegus rexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08705192064646504148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-40114049232034294962012-03-23T23:55:17.006-07:002012-03-23T23:55:17.006-07:00What does 'apa' mean?What does 'apa' mean?Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10036938647225089968noreply@blogger.com