The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society IT tutorials etc. Fallout 101: What Will Tomorrow Bring? “I don’t need to be here. I already told you, I’m fine.” “Yes, I agree, you are making a lot of progress. But you are still in a very delicate position, and-” “Look,” she cut in, “what happened… is in the past now.” A brief silence followed. She shook her head and turned away. Outside of the 33rd story office window, the day’s last light was receding from the landscape; distant mountains glowed with a rosy aura beneath billowing masses of crimson cloud and steel buildings turned to shadow against the fading skyline. He cleared his throat. She knew the answer. “Acknowledgement,” she said, without turning away from the window. “Yes, that’s correct. “You’ll let me leave?” “Maria, I am trying to help you, but you have to work with me.” She shrugged her shoulders, saying nothing. “Acknowledgement is just the first step,” he went on, “The others who saw what you did came out of the experience… changed. Memories of that disturbing evening lingered on the edge of her awareness. “That’s true. “Yes.”
Lovecraft H.P. Poète de l’indicible, homme solitaire et maladif aux amertumes acides, Lovecraft est, aux côtés de Edgar A.Poe, l’un des grands maîtres de la littérature fantastique et d’épouvante, un génie des abysses dont l’œuvre tentaculaire plonge au cœur de nos peurs les plus enfouies... Très populaire en France, il a bâtit une mythologie complexe et monstrueuse, à partir de nombreuses nouvelles parues, pour la totalité, après sa mort. Son travail a profondément marqué des générations d’auteurs. Il serait très exagéré de dire que l’enfance de Howard Phillip Lovecraft fut une enfance heureuse. Howard vit dans une demeure immense, propriété de son grand-père, au 454 Angell Street. Howard P. En 1921, il perd sa mère, Sarah Susan Philips. En 1922, Lovecraft fait la rencontre de Sonia Heft Green, une journaliste amateur, comme lui. De retour à Providence, Lovecraft connait une période d’écriture fructueuse. Cette mythologie se résume ainsi : Les personnages de Lovecraft sont souvent peu épais.
eBooksBay - Download Free eBooks Evolutionary Psychology Primer by Leda Cosmides and John Tooby Leda Cosmides & John Tooby Introduction The goal of research in evolutionary psychology is to discover and understand the design of the human mind. Evolutionary psychology is an approach to psychology, in which knowledge and principles from evolutionary biology are put to use in research on the structure of the human mind. In this view, the mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Debauching the mind: Evolutionary psychology's past and present In the final pages of the Origin of Species, after he had presented the theory of evolution by natural selection, Darwin made a bold prediction: "In the distant future I see open fields for far more important researches. In our view, William James was right about evolutionary psychology. Figure 1:Three complementary levels of explanation in evolutionary psychology. The Standard Social Science Model Back to Basics Principle 1. Figure 3.
Dagon (divinité) Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Pour les articles homonymes, voir Dagon. Dagon, forme ancienne Dagan, est un important dieu des populations sémitiques du Nord-Ouest. Il est le dieu des semences et de l'agriculture et fut révéré par les anciens Amorrites, les habitants d'Ebla, d'Ougarit et fut un des dieux principaux des Philistins. Très tardivement dans son histoire, à partir du IVe siècle après J. La Bible mentionne la présence de statues de Dagon dans le camp des Philistins (principal ennemi du peuple hébreu à l'époque des Juges). « Les Philistins prirent l’arche de Dieu, et ils la transportèrent d’Ében Ézer à Asdod. — La Bible, Livre de Samuel, chapitre 5, versets 1 à 5
Ebooks Only - Rapidshare Ebooks and Free Ebook Download (Index) Kûkai First published Tue Oct 3, 2006; substantive revision Fri Oct 8, 2010 Kûkai (774–835CE) is one of the intellectual giants of Japan, who ought not to be ignored in any account of the history of Japanese thought. Among the traditional Buddhist thinkers of Japan, and perhaps even of the whole of East Asia, he is one of the most systematic and philosophical. He is most famous for being the founder of Shingon esoteric Buddhism in Japan. But he is also remembered not only for his contributions as a teacher and scholar of religion, but for his accomplishments and innovations in social welfare, public education, lexicography, language, literature and poetry, literary theory, calligraphy, art, painting, wood-carving, sculpture, music, civil engineering, architecture, etc. during a period when Japan was undergoing rapid change. 1. Kûkai grew up during the Nara period (710–784CE) when the Nara Buddhist schools flourished and the country was centralized under the rule of the imperial family. 2. 3.
Cthulhu Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Description et histoire[modifier | modifier le code] Il est présenté comme un « Grand Ancien », ce qui en fait l'équivalent d'un dieu extraterrestre millénaire, au même titre que Chaugnar Faugn. Dans sa nouvelle L'Appel de Cthulhu (1926), H. Prononciation[modifier | modifier le code] « La véritable sonorité, si les organes humains peuvent l'imiter, ou la retranscrire par courrier, ressemble à : khtûl'-hloo, la première syllabe étant prononcée gutturalement et très sèchement. Culte fictif[modifier | modifier le code] « Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn » est une litanie liée au culte de Cthulhu, traduit dans les ouvrages français par « Dans sa demeure de R'lyeh la morte, Cthulhu rêve et attend ». L'injonction Iä, Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn revient également souvent dans la bouche de ses adorateurs. Culture populaire[modifier | modifier le code] Cthulhu et Neil Gaiman Cthulhu et Cloverfield Cthulhu et Metallica Cthulhu et Donjons et Dragons
Below is an alphabetical list of Lovecraft’s fiction, revisions, collaborations, and miscellaneous minor works, as well as some tales that are not extant. The dates for each of the tales are based primarily on S.T. Joshi’s “Chronology of the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft” included in Arkham House’s Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, but includes some changes based on Mr. Joshi’s ongoing research. The Alchemist (1908) Ashes (with C.