FraterLibre - I am sorry if I offended you in any way as indeed no offense was in any way intended, especially to you as another Lovecraft/Mythos fan.
The way you look at and enjoy the mythos is how you interpret it, who am I to tell you what you should think about the mythos. Yes I disagree on certain points but thats my view. Of course I will still argue points though. Let me explain my comments a little more to show it is not intended to ridecule, perhaps I should have put it a little better.
>if you abstract a bit you'll see he was obviously operating off >this very pattern. Innsmouth was watery, the Witch-House and >Erich Zann's apartment were of the air, the Dunwich Horror was >cthonic and earthly even though it fell from the sky, etc
>>I suspect that if you abstract anything you can make it into >>something it never was originally
That does not deny that if you look at it that way it is somewhat true that they can be roughly classified in an elemental pattern only that it's true if you abstract things you can come to conclusions that the author never originally intended them to be. I wrote a poem once and other people critiqued and analysed it and came to the conclusion that I mean this, that and I was abviously intending to say...blah..blah. I was like "eh?" no I meant...
All I meant was that yes you are right and no you are wrong depending on how you look at it.
>I suspect you're right, you didn't contradict yourself. Instead, I >misunderstood your references. My fault, and sorry about that, I >can but plead incipient stupidity and the start of what may >prove to be a head-cold.
>>I suspect too much delving into forbidden tomes has unhinged >>you slightly my friend
That was just supposed to be a little friendly lovecraftian humour, preferrable I thought to letting you claim stupidity, which is certainly not true.
It seems to me however that since the creature (large Star Spawn or Cthulhu? *shrugs*) in call of Cthulhu had absolutely no problems moving about and living in the water and Cthulhu has water-based Dagon, Hydra and the Deep Ones as servants that he should really have no problem with being in the water which is incompatible with being an Earth element. HOWEVER it is also true that since he lived on the land and when it sunk he was imprisoned in the water (imprisoned by water or by the Elder Gods though...)
I still think its a shame that Lovecraft never really got the sense of accomplishment he would have gotten had he stuck around a little longer to see him more widely published
I should think he would just be happy to be remembered for what he wrote and that people still get enjoyment from it.