A black condor flies toward a vast reef. Usage Frequency: 1 See notes on mother fixation. Their flaccid avidity is suggestive, yet on reflection I believe they may represent disease agents, such as those bacteria shown to cause syphilis, which are of a most twisting, writhing, worm-like form. Quality: It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage ⦠“What to make of the condor, except that the bird perches on the obvious phallic object in this dream, the vast statue that rears higher and higher above the destruction it has both caused and suffered. Contextual translation of "ex oblivione" into English. Sometimes this works. Quality: Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2020-07-02 Publication History. “Let us consider the dream Herr L. has transcribed as ‘ex oblivione’ or ‘from oblivion.’ He tells me he has read Schopenhauer and is intrigued by the idea that oblivion should be preferred to life, as it puts one beyond desire. But he can’t find the hidden latch of the gate! Materials are delivered as a Google Document. We focus on everything from casual raiding to just having a chat. By continuing to visit this site you agree to our use of cookies. Meet Abbey Whistler. “The last two dreams Herr L. related seem typical. All the New Horror and Genre-Bending Books Arriving in April! Ex Oblivione Sleep - my journey begins I expand and coming through I gaze into the darkness That makes my exploration endless A fervent vision scream Torment cries from those who suffer Hollow dreams - I travel Vague in excruciations That exasperating my crave The sphere eternalize my false device I hesitate before my menace Ruthanna Emrys’s neo-Lovecraftian novelette “The Litany of Earth” is available on Tor.com, along with the more recent but distinctly non-Lovecraftian “Seven Commentaries on an Imperfect Land” and “The Deepest Rift.” Winter Tide, a novel continuing Aphra Marsh’s story from “Litany,” will be available from the Tor.com imprint in Spring 2017. R'LYEH 6. celephaïs 7. phantasmagoria cosmos 8. santa sangre 9. Often used when someone holds one position by virtue of holding another: for example, the President of France is an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra. So, really, my objection to stories like EO is the same as my objection to everything-is-terrifying stories: if the whole of creation is merely beautiful or dull, never ugly or terrifying, then the beauty is hard to appreciate. 2 reviews The Past Is Bloody Teethâ¦Which Still Hunger Something evil has stirred in a tiny desert town. Written and illustrated by Dennis Detwiller, Impossible Landscapes sees Agents exploring the depths of meaning and madness in the strange, surreal phenomenon known as the King in Yellow: a play, a virus of the mind, a king whom emperors have served, a crystallization of understanding of the unfathomable nature of reality. Just because you don’t like the Colors, it doesn’t mean you’ll be bored by them. Lovecraft is better known as a chronicler of fear than of beauty—and that rep is well-earned. “What Herr L. envisions beyond the ‘gate’ is blissful oblivion. Quality: Ex Oblivione is a slight thing, nasty or optimistic depending on your views ofâwell, of oblivion. Before the eyes of the colossus can rise to look at the narrator, he plunges gladly into the sea, where fat sea-worms feast on the world’s dead. Even assuming some reuniting with a universal consciousness, a possible interpretation of the ending… again, that’s the Mythos universe. If the talk page, that's fine, but the poem Ex Oblivione is within the scope of WS. Today we’re looking at two very short stories: “Ex Oblivione,” written in 1920 or 1921 and first published in the March 1921 issue of The United Amateur, and “What the Moon Brings,” written in June 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of The National Amateur. Usage Frequency: 1 When Lovecraft wrote these two pieces, he’d already penned such little masterworks in the Dreamlands milieu as “The Doom that Came to Sarnath,” “The Cats of Ulthar,” “Celephais” and “The Other Gods.” They could be fragments, though as prose poems they can stand complete. Lovecraft, Ex Oblivione is a scenario for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game, the roleplaying game of conspiratorial and Lovecraftian investigative horror published by Arc Dream Publishing.It can be played using the roleplaying gameâs full rules or those from Delta Green: Need to Know. The lotus blossoms vanish into the depths before they can tell him the secrets the moon brings. In Zakarion, he finds a yellowed papyrus written by dream-sages. With two albums under their belt, âRaynham Hallâ and 2016âs âEx Oblivioneâ, the five-piece is comparable to darkwave heavy weights of old and yet skillfully manages to be fresh. Quality: Usage Frequency: 1 Lovecraft, a public domain text, is included, as is a detailed answer key. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2018-08-01 Quality: Quality: ex ⦠Speak for yourself, man. I just want to be sure about this. Nameless narrator (presumably a different one) hates the moon, for it makes the familiar strange and hideous. Usage Frequency: 1 The reef is no reef, but an eikon, basalt-crowned, so tremendous that its vile hooves must paw ooze miles below the surface of the sea. “Herr L. asserts that he is a teetotaler, and I believe he does have little to no experience with alcohol, or he would know that ‘drugs’ that open some ‘gates’ will often inhibit rather than propel penetration of those ‘gates.’. Meaning either the 48 number long reactivation code, a USB you made or going to your Microsoft account. The Degenerate Dutch: This week’s stories are pretty personally focused—unless you count a little Dreamlands exceptionalism, there’s little to take offense at. Based upon the H.P. Really removed. Beyond that ‘gate’ Herr L. imagines a world whence there can be no return (loss of virginity/sexual innocence.) Not that these are cheerful tales, but still. Many times he walks through a golden valley, then a ruin-studded grove, to a massive vine-covered wall with a little bronze gate. “Treatment plan. Libronomicon: That’s an awfully convenient papyrus that the narrator of “Ex Oblivione” finds. Ex Oblivione ex officio ex opere operantis ex opere operato ex oriente lux ex parte ex pede Herculem ex post ex post facto ex professo ex scientia tridens ex scientia vera ex silentio ex situ ex supra |e.s.| cf. 18.9m members in the books community. Herr L. has shown me stories he wrote called ‘Dagon’ and ‘The Nameless City.’ In these, I feel he better sublimated his anxieties and took a more expansive view of life, indeed on a vast historical and even cosmic scale. From Beyond (Sleep Is Better Than Prayer) 04. The lotuses have ‘lips’ that whisper and bid (lips of a nether variety?) Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2015-10-26 Into Oblivion 03. Usage Frequency: 1 Usage Frequency: 1 Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2021-04-09 Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2021-02-23 In any case, there’s a drug that will open the gate. I am a woman. Quality: Materials are delivered in PDF format. Free shipping for many products! Condor to that cruder word for prophylactic requires the change of only one letter, after all. Schopenhauer was a German philosopher who followed an extreme version of hedonism, which is often viewed as pessimism. At last he comes to a silent sea. What’s Cyclopean: Fewer ten-dollar words this week, but some cool and unusual choices nevertheless. - AdamBMorgan 18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC) I removed the tag. Her first novel, Summoned, is available from Tor Teen along with the recently released sequel Fathomless. Herr L. is driven by its influence to leave a known walled garden and pursue a stream bearing fallen lotus blossoms (females possessed but now seen as resigned and dead!) Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2021-03-11 Human translations with examples: from, strike, dues ex, from the, with old, from water, from fire we. Quality: And wait! Eww, even when the moonlight wanes, ripples on the sea tell of the worms writhing below. Usage Frequency: 1 NECROPOLIS 10. It works particularly well, as in Dream Quest, when the beauty remains limned by fear. He drifts through the gate into a realm neither of land nor sea, wonder nor horror, for it is the white void of unpeopled and limitless space. China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. With his penchant for neologism, Herr L. could change that odd word into something suitably horrid yet faintly humorous to, how to say, take the edge off.”. 5. “To escape the inevitable, Herr L. rushes into it, which I hope he will not actually do. You can catch them live at the Dark Spring Festival in Berlin on March 24th. Currently we are forming our own raid team and also a pvp team to have some fun in rated battlegrounds. Reference: Anonymous. But it’s no shock that such cities show up in Lovecraft’s nightmares. Quality: Ex Oblivione Ex Oblivione is the 15th album from Psyclopean. Several possible meanings: the ‘death’ of sexual gratification, or actual death, or he’s fudging it because he has no clear idea of what might follow, so yes, vague generalizations such as ‘native infinity’—return to the womb? But it doesn’t try to treat any of its horror as nice, let alone treacly. Find out next week! Let us set aside the thinly veiled phobias and substitute tentacles and elder races, perhaps even some fantastic transmogrification of those clams which make Herr L. so queasy, and yet which are so delicious fried into fritters or chopped into chowders. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2021-03-18 Written by sages too wise for the waking world—well, la de da, let’s sing a round of “I’m Too Sexy” in their honor. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2020-10-03 This one seems kin to those mapped out elsewhere in loving detail: R’lyeh and Y’hanithlei, the vast metropoli of the Old Ones and the unnamed land of “The Temple.” The idea compelled and terrified him, and he managed to make it compelling and sometimes even terrifying, even if I do fall firmly on the “Cool, let’s go check it out,” side of any argument. On the surface, “What the Moon Brings” is a darker story. Usage Frequency: 1 SALEM 13. Not, at least, without a condor, as he’s already afflicted by hypochondriasis. -- Ex Oblivione, H.P. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website. Usage Frequency: 1 I was as ever struck by the imagery of what Herr L. calls ‘the Dreamlands.’ In one phase, it is given over to aspects of the Feminine, such as soft and scented breezes, languorous sails, gardens and arbors and twilights and roses. Quahogs, I believe they are called. Added by: Inhuman_Nameless: Madness Takes Its Toll: Lunaphobia is not a fun condition. I’ve criticized some of his stories for trying to portray everything as scary, making the massive universe-shaking terrors seem less alarming through a lack of contrast with, say, two-hundred-year-old houses. It is, after all, based on one of Lovecraft’s nightmares. This is a moderated subreddit. LAMENT CONFIGURATION 3. Bartender: [turns to Owen face] Owen: Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you woman a were! 4.0k votes, 92 comments. It was the property of one Wolfgang Siegfried Gregor Freud, a cousin of the “Father of Psychiatry,” several times removed. Reference: Anonymous, Last Update: 2020-02-24 We use cookies to enhance your experience. Here a ‘golden valley’ (cleavage) leads to ‘shadowy groves’ and ‘mighty wall’ (pubic hair and mons veneris); in the ‘wall’ is a ‘little gate of bronze,’ closed (vaginal opening, hymen intact.) Here I would say that Herr L. has imagined himself as experienced, even libertine. Reference: Anonymous, Save yourself from the messenger of death, Last Update: 2019-03-17 Sweet Ermengarde are a gothic rock band from Bochum, Germany. Cousin Sigmund himself has not had the fortune to come upon a mental artifact so fraught with sexual apprehension. “Re this dream Herr L has transcribed as ‘what the moon brings’—certainly I will write a monograph about it! You can write one. Must-Read Speculative Short Fiction: March 2021, Calling Evil Good, and Good Evil: Spiritual Abuse in C.S. As the tide continues to ebb, the stench of all the world’s dead wafts from the still-rising city, for they’ve been brought there from all the world’s churchyards for puffy sea-worms to gnaw on. Quality: A Bitter Revolution. ex oblivione: from oblivion: The title of a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. For that matter, given that the waking world of the Dreamlands is in fact the Mythos, it may be many things—squamous, rugose, teetering on the edge of unimaginable voids that will devour your sanity—but not gray and uninteresting. Taking opiates to prolong his dreams, he develops an obsession with the bronze gate, beyond which must lie a country of no return, lovely and radiant. Evidently he left Vienna in a hurry, pursued by malpractice suits. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. Quality: And I quote, extensively, translating from the German. Ex Oblivione 02. Arthur Schopenhauer: The Concept Of Happiness. Text/code is available under CC-BY-SA.Licenses for other media varies. We might say that each dream departs from the station of the conscious mind and passes through a subconscious land of fanciful moons and gardens and temples and ruins and sages and unlikely birds to the depths of the id. Port Of Hope 05. vämjelseriter by NECRONOMIDOL, released 24 February 2021 1. Is “Hypnos” really Lovecraft’s most slash-tastic story? I’m not sure Lovecraft has quite thought through what it means to become one with Azathoth. Usage Frequency: 1 Sweet Ermengarde - Ex Oblivione (2016) - Review. Nowadays we have fewer magazines with “amateur” in the title, and more internet. One of these days someone needs to write a proper epic about the sociopolitical relationships between all these oceanic civilizations—sort of a Game of Thrones for the Deep One/Old One/Shoggoth set. 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