If the last post was a bit too heady for your Thursday afternoon, we can offer you the following information jacked from the terrific Grim Reviews blog:
H.P. Lovecraft may be long dead, but the verbose richness of the style he wrote in remains so thoroughly a part of his legacy that a “Random H.P. Lovecraft Story Generator” has been made. Of course, this Java Script is incapable of generating the novellas or longer tales HPL was known for. Sometimes, it also produces a non-Lovecraftian mishmash of impressive sounding words — usually, with hilarious results. Other times, it hits it almost right. In any case, you’re guaranteed a new story every time you refresh it.
Doesn’t that sound like fun? Go ahead, have at! Maybe even post some demented auto-prose in the comments.
I remember your Lovecraftiness. Were you using this generator?
I’m loving it. My first attempt ranges from the surprisingly accurate (“At long last, the vaporized knowledge of the cold, modern abyss was revealed!”) to the nonsensical (“Oh, the makeshift tripod of it ALL!”) to the strangely compelling (“A proverbial egg fainted at the very thought of a crane,” “When a statue dreams, a somewhat modern nightmare leaves.”).
It also contained what may be the answer to your previous post: “When the servant inside a vault is frantically subconscious, the dripping wheel accidentally viewed the hideous offspring of the exceedingly strange burden.”
So true.
“When a tripod feels the abyss, the blackness self-flagellates.”
I was being robo-Lovecraft on twitter last week.