"mysteries which men can only guess at"

[eldritchhobbit]

Happy birthday wishes go out to homespunheart and jagash with hopes that your day is wonderful and your upcoming year is the best ever!


And I have a few links to share...

* The Hog's Head has an introduction to/prep for/commentary on the upcoming film version of Watchmen: Watchmen: Getting Started.

* Fear.net has a five-part birthday tribute to Edgar Allan Poe by Darrell Schweitzer:
- "Part 1: Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe"
- "Part 2: Poe Goes to the Movies"
- "Part 3: Poe's Madmen"
- "Part 4: Poe and Lovecraft"
- "Part 5: Was Poe a Goth?"

* Librivox.org has some new (and, as always, free) unabridged readings of works available that may be of special interest to genre readers:
- The Jewel of the Seven Stars by Bram Stoker
- Short Science Fiction Collection Vol. 11 by various authors
- Folk Tales from Many Lands by Lilian Gask
- The Republic by Plato

* And, last but not least, from Australia: a new look at Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
- Bram Stoker, Dracula

Comments

[estellye.livejournal.com]

"But I am the chosen one! Just kidding."

hehe!

[scribblerworks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that line is fun. Nice to see that they're keeping the humor alive - sort of need it for the darkness of the story.

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

Is the Stoudt monument that Schweitzer is posing next to in the Fearnet series of any particular significance (in Evans City Cemetery from NOTLD for example)?

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Ooohh, a reading of "The Republic". Thanks! (And thanks for the B-day well wishes).

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

I love the timing he shows with that line. Very funny!

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Good point!

Happiness Runs

[emerdavid.livejournal.com]

Oooh, haven't thought of that song in years. Decades!

"Happiness runs in a circular motion
Thought is like a little boat upon the sea
All [...] than you can see
You can have ev'rything if you let yourself be."

Seems way too naive nowadays, but maybe the world could use a bit more of this kind of naive idealism.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Good question! I'm not really sure. Hmmm...

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

You bet!

Re: Happiness Runs

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

Very true!