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Feedback 025 - Stories are Evolving Monsters (Patreon)

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2024-07-16 14:00:07
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Chris Vinny

You mentioned wanting to cover another Edith Nesbit story so you can discuss her husband’s punching prowess. “Man sized in marble” is an oft anthologized story I am surprised you have not covered yet. If memories serves it even has some good phonetic dialogue

Allison Albright

I (stupidly, naively) googled milking machines to see if they might be more similar to the Martian tripods than a milking stool and I will not be reporting on the results of that search.

ChiveOnOCM

Happy 15 Years! Now sell us some Merc!

Rasmus Juul

"What's he milking in there"

Ben A

Adding to the feedback loop: The historical categorization of Tasmanians with wildlife was an extremely racist attitude that equated "savages" with the least developed humans, per Eurocentric beliefs. By the 1890s all Tasmanians had been killed through a genocide by the British colonizers because they were regarded as "pests." The word horrible doesn’t do justice. But it is a myth that native Australians were considered "fauna" under Australian law, even though they might as well as have been treated as such. And while on the topic of deplorable attitudes during the early twentieth century, H.G. Wells was an ardent eugenist (but then again most everyone was at the time). He was asked to respond to a major address by Francis Galton (who coined the term eugenics) in 1904. In his written remarks, Wells was ultimately pessimistic about Galton’s belief that anyone could determine what individuals could be determined to be “superior” or more capable of producing “better” humans. (The quote, lightly edited, is below.) But Wells didn't think the idea of human improvement through eugenics was a bad idea. It was just that he didn't know how to make it practical. (As Chris knows, I am a scholar of the history of eugenics. I am writing some about Wells, as well as Lovecraft, in my upcoming book on the eugenics movement.) Here's the quote from Wells: "So long as the consideration of types is not raised, the eugenic proposition is very simple: superior persons must mate with superior persons, inferior persons must not have offspring at all, and the only thing needful is some test that will infallibly detect superiority…. Even the generous recognition of types that Dr. Galton has now made does not altogether satisfy my inquiring mind…. Are there not types of health? The mating of two quite healthy persons may result in disease…. On the other hand, two not very healthy persons may have mutually corrective qualities, and may beget sound offspring. Then what right have we to assume that energy and ability are simply qualities?"

robert oszakiewski

I'm honored that my comment on War of the Worlds was read during this episode, but my name was mispronounced - it's pronounced as Ush-a-kef-ski. Ah, the lifelong curse of an Eastern European name.

It's a Ghost.

I’m glad my John Hurt dream brought you so much joy, Chris! When leaving the comment, I wondered if it might be a bit too random for anyone to care.

Drix

On topic: Stories as a living, ever changing entity that chews people up and spits them out to serve the overarching Narrative? Someone's read up on their Pratchett. Off topic: I've just finished a reread of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and it was both excellent and devastating revisiting it with adult eyes(first read back in highschool). There's a lot to unpack in it, and it certainly meets the definition of a Strange Story. Any chance of covering this in the near future?

Jennifer

I second covering Kafka!

Jason Thompson

After “The Night Land,” my second favorite weird old novel I would love you to cover is Albert Kubin’s “The Other Side.” Just a very bizarre 1908 story about a kind of Burning Man/Ren Faire Utopian community (named Dreamland) somewhere in the Himalayas, and there’s psychic powers involved, and it’s really surreal, and then it turns super dark and everything goes to hell. There is a 1970s film adaptation “Traumstadt” which is worth a watch but sadly doesn’t have the crazy psychic stuff.

Mooncubus

My boss is always going on about how he watches us on the cameras to know if we're working. So every so often I'll look straight at one of the cameras and go "pervert!"

Fraser Burnett

Would love for you to cover Sarban and Jean Ray, please, thankyouverymuch.

Kyle Griffiths

Off Topic: I'm relistening to episode 278 from the old show, Bloch's "The Shadow from the Steeple" so I decided to query Chat GPT on a certain question - it claims there are at least 8 copies of the Necronomicon mentioned in the works of HPL and his circle. What do you think about that?

Kyle Griffiths

I wonder which one Keziah borrowed and if she returned it in good condition. ;)

Ryan Thomas

Hard-Boiled Disappointment: Twenty Minutes with Pilot, John Hurt. I'm in.