Harlan Ellison once wrote...
About how he gets these great ideas from mishearing things.
Well, I think I hit upon my version of this...typos.
Sometimes I will mean to type something and my fingers or some forgotten corner of my brain will just not listen. Instead they fire off randomly and every once in a while give me something new and interesting.
Example?
I was checking for some information on the new video game Dragon Age: Origins. It's a great game by the way and I highly recommend it.
Here's the thing. When Googling the game I dropped a letter and instead typed:
Dagon Age.
I stopped before I got to "Origins". But now I'm thinking. What is Dagon Age? My gut reaction is that its Lovecraftian horror meets fantasy- like the Conan and Kull stories except where the Cthulhu Mythos features much more prominently. Like where kingdoms of Deep Ones rule from great cities and war with various other fantasy kingdoms.
And why is it Dagon's Age? Why not Cthulhu or Mother Hydra or whatever? What makes him so special?
Lovecraft himself touched on stories kind of like this, but he never did it with elves...so maybe there's more to this idea.
Alternatively, this might be about the head of the Phillistine pantheon. The ancient god of agriculture. But then what's the story behind the "Dagon Age?" A great Phillistine empire which grows to become a major force like Rome or other famous "world spanning" empires.
Or maybe...the two combine. After all, some theorized the Phillistines came from "sea peoples." Which is probably where Lovecraft got the idea for his Dagon and the Deep Ones, at least in part. But what if you fold Lovecraft back into the mix again, adding his myths to the old ones to create something new? And then you have the Phillistines coming from the sea with their god Dagon, who is much more like Lovecraft's sea monster god and...
I just typoed again. Right as I was doing that. I corrected it but before I did "the Phillistines coming from the sea with their dog Dagon." Huh. So let's fold that in and what do we have?
Maybe the sea peoples with their Lovecraftian pet god rise to control the earth. Do other cultures have powerful dogs? Does the great Egyptian dog Ra aid the Egyptians? How about the Greek king of the dogs, Zeus (who incidentally, hangs out with Higgens)? What does an Age ruled by Phillistine mermen and their powerful dog look like?
And now I'm off. Mind is a-racing and all because I can't type straight.
Well, I think I hit upon my version of this...typos.
Sometimes I will mean to type something and my fingers or some forgotten corner of my brain will just not listen. Instead they fire off randomly and every once in a while give me something new and interesting.
Example?
I was checking for some information on the new video game Dragon Age: Origins. It's a great game by the way and I highly recommend it.
Here's the thing. When Googling the game I dropped a letter and instead typed:
Dagon Age.
I stopped before I got to "Origins". But now I'm thinking. What is Dagon Age? My gut reaction is that its Lovecraftian horror meets fantasy- like the Conan and Kull stories except where the Cthulhu Mythos features much more prominently. Like where kingdoms of Deep Ones rule from great cities and war with various other fantasy kingdoms.
And why is it Dagon's Age? Why not Cthulhu or Mother Hydra or whatever? What makes him so special?
Lovecraft himself touched on stories kind of like this, but he never did it with elves...so maybe there's more to this idea.
Alternatively, this might be about the head of the Phillistine pantheon. The ancient god of agriculture. But then what's the story behind the "Dagon Age?" A great Phillistine empire which grows to become a major force like Rome or other famous "world spanning" empires.
Or maybe...the two combine. After all, some theorized the Phillistines came from "sea peoples." Which is probably where Lovecraft got the idea for his Dagon and the Deep Ones, at least in part. But what if you fold Lovecraft back into the mix again, adding his myths to the old ones to create something new? And then you have the Phillistines coming from the sea with their god Dagon, who is much more like Lovecraft's sea monster god and...
I just typoed again. Right as I was doing that. I corrected it but before I did "the Phillistines coming from the sea with their dog Dagon." Huh. So let's fold that in and what do we have?
Maybe the sea peoples with their Lovecraftian pet god rise to control the earth. Do other cultures have powerful dogs? Does the great Egyptian dog Ra aid the Egyptians? How about the Greek king of the dogs, Zeus (who incidentally, hangs out with Higgens)? What does an Age ruled by Phillistine mermen and their powerful dog look like?
And now I'm off. Mind is a-racing and all because I can't type straight.
posted by Jack at 10:36 AM
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