the whole thing

Sometimes I forget how easy it is to find things on Google. That’s the problem with being from what is now no longer the young generation; I’m still stuck in stupid habits already rendered unnecessary by technological advance, such as wasting a whole evening doing a Bibliography the old-fashioned way. It can be hard to recalibrate your habits.

Anyway, here’s the whole Lovecraft parody of Eliot’s The Waste Land. It’s worth savoring.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/11985582/hplovecraft-Waste-Paper-A-Poem-of-Profound-Insignificance

A question– could Lovecraft have gotten away with a Sokal-type hoax here, if he had sent this to a journal of modernist poetry? Not quite in this form, I guess– there are too many comical giveaways that it’s a parody. But I’ll bet Lovecraft could have pulled a Sokal if he’d wanted to do so badly enough.