{"id":54919,"date":"2022-06-05T03:41:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T03:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=54919"},"modified":"2022-06-05T16:27:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T16:27:36","slug":"sffaudio-podcast-684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/06\/05\/sffaudio-podcast-684\/","title":{"rendered":"SFFaudio Podcast #684"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some people’s thoughts turn toward the usual beach-front summer vacation, the new SFFaudio Podcast<\/em> #684 has an unabridged Gordon Gould reading for “The Strange High House In The Mist” by H.P. Lovecraft<\/a> followed by discussion.<\/p>\n

Lovecraft claimed the story was inspired by the “titan cliffs of Magnolia” (Mass.). Yet I find that the postcard and glass-plate makers have singularly failed to capture any “titan” cliffs, and the candidates of “Rafe’s Chasm” and “Mother Ann” seem to lack the necessary attributes. <\/p>\n

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Yet it appears he was not being ironic…<\/p>\n

I ended up with the titan cliffs of Magnolia — memories of which prompted “The Strange High House in the Mist” — and found their charm undiminished. [He had seen them in 1923]. You can’t imagine their majesty unless you’ve seen them — primal rock and sea and sky …. and the bells of the buoys tolling free in the aether of faery!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In 1933 he recalls…<\/p>\n

the striking sea-cliffs of Magnolia — with the yawning abyss of Rafe’s Chasm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well then… maybe they just never had the right photographer? Perhaps at low tide one could walk around below them on the beach, and that way they looked more impressive?<\/p>\n

However, the search of Magnolia does yield me the required Father Neptune…<\/p>\n

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As some people’s thoughts turn toward the usual beach-front summer vacation, the new SFFaudio Podcast #684 has an unabridged Gordon …<\/p>\n

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