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What’s lovecraftian about it?

>>11594221
big, init

gayest thread on /lit/

>>11594216
He wasn't Lovecraftian, he was just a big dumb animal. Starbuck even says this. The book was more about the captain's hubris than the animal driving him mad in a lovecraftian manner.

Terry Pratchett's Things from the Dungeon Dimensions. A straight up rip of of Lovecraft's creatures, and integrated into the magic system, and explained, so they lose their Lovecraftianess

>>11594216
>>11594269
>lovecraft
>terry pratchett

cringe

>>11594293
>and integrated into the magic system, and explained, so they lose their Lovecraftianess

>>11594221
>much smarter than any other whale
>survived all the attacks seemingly not hurt by anyone
>appears at different places at the same time

>>11594325
how is that lovecraftian

>>11594221
Because it's beyond human comprehension and this makes it horrifying, at least to Ahab and Ishmael. Go read the chapter "On the Whiteness of the Whale" to see what I mean.

Melville experienced a big revival around the time Lovecraft was writing his stories, and I sometimes wonder if Moby-Dick didn't directly influence him.

>>11594260
>implying Moby Dick wasn't an allegory for God

>>11594565
>Melville experienced a big revival around the time Lovecraft was writing his stories, and I sometimes wonder if Moby-Dick didn't directly influence him.
I think about this as well, Call of Cthulhu especially with the plot of sailors stepping upon something alien and incomprehensible

>>11594325
The chapter describing how viscious and alpha sperm whales are is some of the most metal shit ever. And wasn't there that bit about people believing that the white whale could appear at multiple points of the globe as if by materialization?

>>11594216
Stop. Just stop.

>>11595943
>And wasn't there that bit about people believing that the white whale could appear at multiple points of the globe as if by materialization?
this is exactly what made me think of it as lovecraftian entity but it couldve been just rumors

>>11596074
I mean it's only rumors and not actually true, but the supernatural superstition behind him makes him terrifying.

>>11596094
I also think it is not real as it Melville spends so much time describing the world of whalers and whales that making the main antagonist a supernatural being just wouldnt make sense
the fact that he is just an animal makes it better

Is this lovecraftian:
>Timeless being that has full, self-actualized sapient beings as its appendages.
>The appendages are not aware of the main body

>>11596209
Sauce.

>>11594227
Thanks, I needed this laugh after the day I've had

>>11594216
The Frogs from Aristophanes' play, "The Frogs"

>>11594216
Large Garbage Barge in DeLillo's Underworld