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February 7th, 2007

03:46 pm

More Lovecraft
So, some person who will go nameless (no, not Hastur: less eldritch) decides to advertise a roleplaying dating thing to the MIT Campus Crusade for Cthulhu list because ... well, it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. Others flamed, justly. The High Priestess responded, "Anybody want to play Hastur to my Shub-Niggurath?"

So with apologies to Christopher Malowe and Robert Chambers:

   The Passionate Hastur to His Love

     Come live with me and be my god
     And we with every pseudopod
     And tentacle, and squamous thing
     Shall make Lake of Hali ring.

     Thy foetid brood can romp and play
     On some quaint planet far away
     Until there's only you and I
     In lost Carcosa, dim and dry.

     And I will make thee beds of slime
     From kelp and glue and mesenchyme,
     A frock of skin, a skirt of hands,
     And garlands of pineal glands.

     Crazed celebrants will shriek and bellow
     "A consort for the King In Yellow!"
     We'll stroke their minds until they break
     As twin suns sink beneath the lake,

     And when we meld and interlace,
     Man's sanity, and time, and space
     Shall twist and melt where we have trod
     So live with me and be my god!

     The Hyades shall melodize
     For thy delight where black stars rise,
     If these delights thy mind may prod,
     Then live with me and be my god.

{I worry I may have messed up some of the thee and thous. Also, sorry, no footnotes this time. The main sources are "Cassilda's Song" from The King in Yellow and "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" by Christopher Marlowe. The Hyades are stars, Carcosa is (probably) a city, and mesenchyme is a kind of embryonic connective tissue.}

[Edited for spelling, and to note that the other inspiration was the origin of the name "Hastur" in the Bierce story "Haita the Shepherd."]
[Edited again to add a missing "with".]

Tags: bierce, cthulhu, hastur, lovecraft, parody, poem

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