Actually, the closest direct exposure I've had to Rohmer's creation is the anonymized antagonist of the first Extraordinary League of Gentlemen story arc.
Arguably, bad enough. I've also seen the Enter the Dragon segment from Kentucky Fried Movie (though not, I think, the rest of it); it seemed a fairly incisive loving takedown of the original film. "You'll get to kill fifty, maybe sixty people..."
Lovecraft was violently anti-everybody, and I think these days everybody who reads him pretty much just sorta deals, for better or worse. (Antisemite who married a Jew, after all; they divorced, but I believe I've read it was amicable.) As you say, everybody not a WASP is a "degenerated mongrel"--and come to think of it, his WASPs aren't too healthy either.
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on 2007-08-26 10:35 pm (UTC)Arguably, bad enough. I've also seen the Enter the Dragon segment from Kentucky Fried Movie (though not, I think, the rest of it); it seemed a fairly incisive loving takedown of the original film. "You'll get to kill fifty, maybe sixty people..."
Lovecraft was violently anti-everybody, and I think these days everybody who reads him pretty much just sorta deals, for better or worse. (Antisemite who married a Jew, after all; they divorced, but I believe I've read it was amicable.) As you say, everybody not a WASP is a "degenerated mongrel"--and come to think of it, his WASPs aren't too healthy either.