Episode 15 - Poetry and the Gods & Celephais
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
Strange Studies of Strange Stories
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2009
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Fire off of me G. H.P. podcraft.com |
| 0:05.0 | A damp gloomy evening in April it was. |
| 0:11.0 | Just after the close of the Great War when Marsha found herself alone with strange |
| 0:15.7 | thoughts and wishes. Unheard of yearnings which floated out of the spacious 20th century |
| 0:20.7 | drawing room up the misty deeps of the air and eastward to far olive groves in |
| 0:25.4 | arkety which he had only seen in her dreams. |
| 0:31.0 | In her dreams. Oh yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your dream. I'm Chad |
| 0:37.6 | Fyfer and I'm Chris Lac even this is the HP LovecraftP. Lovecraft. |
| 0:45.0 | That was our awesome reader this week, Mr. Billy Flynn, who is one of the hosts, my opinion the host of GeekRadio daily.com which is an awesome |
| 0:58.0 | podcast I listen to it daily. |
| 1:00.3 | Billy was reading from Poetry and the Gods which we are covering today as well as another story |
| 1:06.1 | the pronunciation of which everybody's up in the air about yeah Salafaeus |
| 1:11.2 | Salafis Billy actually says Salafaeus, Salafis? Uh, Billy actually says Salafius. |
| 1:15.0 | Salafius, which might actually be correct. |
| 1:17.0 | It might be, actually, you know, I don't know if any pronunciation is correct, because it's a dream city. |
| 1:21.0 | It is a dream city. |
| 1:22.0 | And as we all know, today we're talking about a dream city and as we all know today we're talking about |
| 1:24.0 | dreams mmm you know that first paragraph that the Billy read actually is kind of a |
| 1:28.8 | tip-off right away though that poetry and the gods which is the first story recovering is a collaboration. |
| 1:34.4 | I think it's that the main characters named Marsha. Well she's a woman. Yes. Yes, that's that's kind of a big |
| 1:40.8 | It's kind of a tip off and even the way that it's sort of written kind of makes me believe that the collaborator Anna Helen Crofts was the one who perhaps wrote this passage. |
| 1:50.0 | You know little is known about her. She's only written a few stories and nobody really knows anything about her. |
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