{"id":10117,"date":"2015-07-16T07:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10117"},"modified":"2015-07-16T07:19:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T12:19:24","slug":"the-cimmerian-hypothesis-part-one-civilization-and-barbarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10117","title":{"rendered":"The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part One: Civilization and Barbarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca\/2015\/07\/the-cimmerian-hypothesis-part-one.html\">The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part One: Civilization and Barbarism<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>One of the oddities of the writer\u2019s life is the utter unpredictability of inspiration. There are times when I sit down at the keyboard knowing what I have to write, and plod my way though the day\u2019s allotment of prose in much the same spirit that a gardener turns the earth in the beds of a big garden; there are times when a project sits there grumbling to itself and has to be coaxed or prodded into taking shape on the page; but there are also times when something grabs hold of me, drags me kicking and screaming to the keyboard, and holds me there with a squamous paw clamped on my shoulder until I\u2019ve finished whatever it is that I\u2019ve suddenly found out that I have to write.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two months, I\u2019ve had that last experience on a considerably larger scale than usual; to be precise, I\u2019ve just completed the first draft of a 70,000-word novel in eight weeks. Those of my readers and correspondents who\u2019ve been wondering why I\u2019ve been slower than usual to respond to them now know the reason. The working title is\u00a0<em>Moon Path to Innsmouth<\/em>; it deals, in the sidelong way for which fiction is so well suited, with quite a number of the issues discussed on this blog; I\u2019m pleased to say that I\u2019ve lined up a publisher, and so in due time the novel will be available to delight the rugose hearts of the Great Old Ones and their eldritch minions everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>None of that would be relevant to the theme of the current series of posts on\u00a0<em>The Archdruid Report<\/em>, except that getting the thing written required quite a bit of reference to the weird tales of an earlier era\u2014the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, of course, but also those of Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Howard, who both contributed mightily to the fictive mythos that took its name from Lovecraft\u2019s squid-faced devil-god Cthulhu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part One: Civilization and Barbarism One of the oddities of the writer\u2019s life is the utter unpredictability of inspiration. There are times when I sit down at the keyboard knowing what I have to write, and plod my way though the day\u2019s allotment of prose in much the same spirit that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3463,4283,7328,138,139,311,7327,1758],"class_list":["post-10117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-archdruid-report","tag-barbarism","tag-cimmerian-hypothesis","tag-civilisation","tag-civilization","tag-fiction","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-john-michael-greer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10118,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10117\/revisions\/10118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}