Starry Starry Night
You’ll be reading the title of this strip and wonder what that has to do with the content of this weeks comic. Tonight I watched the Doctor Who episode, Vincent and the Doctor. It was a brilliant episode about Vincent Van Gogh and some of the tribulations that he withstood in the last year of his life. It speaks of the value of human life and how precious the smallest things can be. It makes us believe that what we do in our lives does make a difference. Vincent Van Gogh was a tortured creative soul who made the world a better place by his presence…only he didn’t know it and died thinking himself a failure and a forgotten man. The most memorable quote from that episode uttered by Matt Smith at the conclusion is, “The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and… bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa, the bad things don’t necessarily spoil the good things or make them unimportant.” Good words! We all have a purpose in life, we all have people who love us and who we love in return. Life is never hopeless and as long as we keep sight of the good things in our lives and hold them close, the bad things are never as bad as they first appear.
Appearances notwithstanding, I believe that Agnes and Trudy will sort things out…eventually.
Ouch… that explains a bit of the angry
Could be 😉
Flannery seems to know something we don’t…
Van Gogh’s fate was also paralleled to a lesser degree by H.P. Lovecraft. He did get published, but died believing his writing career had failed. He was convinced his works would be forgotten and leave no mark in the future.
I guess the same could be said about Robert E. Howard. He had a certain amount of celebrity with the Weird Tales crowd, but he thought that he and his work would fade into obscurity. Too bad he didn’t live to see the big Howard boom of the 60’s. His stuff is so influential and relevant to this day; he had no idea that he was creating lightning in a bottle.
I see what you mean, but in any sort of technical sense Lovecraft’s work is truly bad. Its 2 most redeeming features are its World-building and IMO that he’s one of the few actually scary horror writers.
I haven’t read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I can’t really comment on that. I have read everything of Howard’s that I can get my hands on though, since I was a teenager. He cranked a lot of work out in a short period of time and they weren’t all gems, but he had a passion for writing and a unique way of looking at things that I appreciate.
BTW, paws4thot, thanks for the shout out to Oddly Aroused on Charlie’s blog. My comic can sure use all the help it can get. It is without a doubt an uphill struggle to gain readers.
I’ve read more Lovecraft than Howard.
Any time.
Even if you don’t get readers directly, I know that a link from Charlie’s blog will bump your prominence in search engines (source being Charlie, who’s his own webmaster, and a personal acquaintance as well as a novelist in hos own right).