E. R. Eddison

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I just used a quote from The Worm Ouroboros in radio free narnia (updated at last!!), and wondered who else ever strayed into it?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

La Fireez rhymes with "desire ease"!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Wonderful WONDERFUL stuff. I wrote my senior honors paper as a undergrad comparing Eddison and one of his sources, John Webster. The image in one of the Zimamavia novels of the goddess summonning up the entirety of creation as a mere bubble that lasts five seconds before she pops it is funny, touching and chilling.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

which one is that in, ned?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

it's years since i read the trilogy

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

haha "a fish dinner in memison" = WHAT A GREBT TITLE FOR A BOOK!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it was that one, actually...I loved how Zimamavia was the mythology for the Ouroboros bunch. Are the original illustrations for Ouroboros available anywhere? "King Gorice in Carce" is nicely brutal.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Aha!

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5582/e_gorice.jpg

Full page on Eddison here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

(Illustrator one Keith Henderson.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

zimiamvia btw

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Darnit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.btinternet.com/~murray.ewing/PB/images/wormillus1.gif

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I have it sitting at home waiting to be read after a particularly productive trip to the library. Ourobourus gets a reference in Adaptation as well. (Tho not the book, the worm. As a snake.)

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i several times tried to draw a map of how demonland, witchland etc all might fall in an actual real geography, but i think his cartography is internally inconsistent (however i now forget why exactly)

haha: whatever became of lessingham?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:24 (twenty-three years ago)

He became moreingham!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 13:25 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread has prematurely died. Nobody else has read him? :-( Should we talk about Dunsany instead?

I like the idea Lessingham just turned into some sort of puffball and floated around Ouroborosland. (All right, Mercury, if you insist.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 21:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Always been intrigued, never read him.

A general pre-Tolkien fantasy thread wd be good. (Jurgen! I was so tempted by a copy of that I found s/h but it was a) a bit damp and stained b) had THE tackiest tits-out demoness 80s fantasy cover and the combination of a) and b) seemed to lead to an unthinkable c) so I put it back.)

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

i'm gunna reread ere when i finish the cockburn brothers book on saddam h

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Jurgen and all the Cabells are worth it especially for the naughty humor -- it's very much a twenties book. Try to find a reprint with the original illustrations, you'll feel better about it after encountering that cover.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Funnily enough, I have both Jurgen & The Worm Ourouboros (sp) at home, bought because they are CLASSICS OF FANTASY but without any intention of reading them. I get the impression that Jurgen is a bit puerile in a fnarr fnarr kind of way while The Worm Ourouboros is all MIGHT WARRIORS BEING MIGHTY, much more my kind of thing.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Accurate assessments both, to an extent. (Cabell was definitely about the fnarr fnarr, but there's still one of the best ever/funniest sex scenes in lit in Jurgen -- it's all in the conversation, and the best Restoration comedians would be proud.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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