{"id":53205,"date":"2022-03-23T03:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurn.org\/tentaclii\/?p=53205"},"modified":"2022-03-23T03:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T03:32:28","slug":"lovecraft-and-ulysses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/03\/23\/lovecraft-and-ulysses\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft and Ulysses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Neale Monks has a new long review of the book A Monster For Many: Talking With H.P. Lovecraft<\/em> by Robert H. Waugh<\/a>, on SFcrowsnest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Lovecraft, Waugh argues, might be consciously patterning the structure of \u2018The Dream-Quest\u2019 on [James Joyce’s modernist] Ulysses<\/em>, both being subdivided into parts thematically connected to different parts of the human body. Given that the entire story happens within a single night’s dream, the internalised quality of such a structure is plausible, at least.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lovecraft flatly told White in May 1935… “I have not read \u201cUlysses<\/em>\u201d”. But I suppose he may have read of<\/em> it and its structure in press reviews, or heard about it in letters. It was hard to get hold of, but I seem to vaguely recall that Galpin got hold of various ‘naughty’ books when living in Paris? Galpin also had the interest and intellect to plough through some of such a difficult and rather boring text, if encountered. Thus Galpin could have related or known something of it first-hand, more so than other members of ‘the gang’?<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for the notion of a modernist influence on Lovecraft though, I believe that old fashioned occultists patterned their spiritual ‘development’ on parts of the body. Called “chakras” or somesuch, which were deemed to be given spiritual ‘power-ups’ and in a certain order? In which case my initial guess would be that Lovecraft’s “Dream-Quest” and Joyce’s Ulysses<\/em> were drawing on the same occult sources? Occultists will no doubt know more on the topic than I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Neale Monks has a new long review of the book A Monster For Many: Talking With H.P. Lovecraft by Robert …<\/p>\n

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