Mythos travel, Spare’s psychogeography and the eschaton

Saturday Signal: sifting the signal from the noise of the Internet’s occultural cacophony.

Big news of a personal nature: last Friday I quit my job. I gave notice until the 25th, but after that I’m a free agent. Very exciting.

In the last Saturday Signal, I noted that Titan might make a nice vacation spot someday. It turns out visitors may find themselves interacting with the locals,  alien methane-based lifeforms. There’s still that little problem of it being utterly uninhabitable by humans, of course, but still: neat-o.

On to the linkage, also largely travel-themed:

• The Lovecraft News Network posted in “Lovecraft and National Geographic” advises that the National Geographic has created a travel guide of places featured in Lovecraft’s stories, written by Edoardo Molinelli. Check out places featured in “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, Miskatonic University, and other relevant New England sites. Travel information, photos of historical sites and weather information available. What a cool idea.

• “Spare Places“,  a video uploaded by squareye, is a psychogeographical guide to Austin Osman Spare’s London. The camera is shaky and kind of washed out, but it gives an idea of Spare’s London, with context and quotes from other writers. Video found in the comments section to a post on Rune Soup by V.V.F. Click here for Part Two.

• Khephra offers thoughts on the eschaton, in “What is the eschaton and why does it need hastening?” on Sophrosyne Radical. Dude may not always respect chaotes, but I still think he’s secretly one on the inside.

I read my first Hermann Hesse in December, and I’ve been dipping in to his other works over the past few months. I haven’t yet picked up Siddhartha or Steppenwolf, the two for which he is perhaps most famous. I’m saving them.

He’s one of those authors I read and think where have you been all my life? I would have adored them more had I read them as a teenager I think, but they’re still great now.

At the moment I’m reading The Journey to the East, in which the narrator describes a remarkable ’round the world trip with an unnamed secret society called here the League. Each member has a specific goal in joining the League, each different, but united in a search for beauty, truth and meaning. Regarding their destination the narrator explains:

…our goal was not only the East, or rather the East was not only a country and something geographical, but it was the home and youth of the soul, it was everywhere and nowhere, it was the union of all times.

Now that’s magick.

As always, if you come across anything nifty, please share it in the comments, or if you use delicious tag it “ahrfoundation” and we’ll take a look. Thanks!

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