Hello all.
I would like to ask a very specific question about the novel "IT" and unfortunately, I am a philosophy teacher... Moreover a French philosophy teacher... which means that I am extraordinarily lousy with computers!
So OMG why, why on God's green Earth do I have to post a post here on the Newbies forum before I may ask my question about IT? Why is my old Mac unable to cope with the format of the SKMB posts (I am currently writing from my wife's laptop)? Why is the Newbies start here forum so far away form the top of the page? Why do I always ask why this and why that?
(This is slipping out of control...)
(Ahem. Let's start afresh.)
My question about IT is this: I read Stephen King's explanation about his original idea of the book and how he came up with the troll in the sewers. Okay. Got it. Yet. Such a powerful story doesn't appear entirely set up in the writer's mind. I believe he muses over the main villain, especially such a mysterious one as IT.
I was therefore wondering: could IT be considered as one of Lovecraft's deities, maybe even a Great Old One similar to Cthulhu? Do readers share this view or am I presuming too much and finding a far-fetched explanation? And what about Stephen King himself? If IT and Derry are somewhat Maine equivalents of Cthulhu and R'lyeh, was it a conscious construct by Stephen King or is it what psychologists could call inconscious anamnesis? (They probably have a specific term for this, but I don't know it.)
Thanx a lot to all SKMB members who would answer me
I would like to ask a very specific question about the novel "IT" and unfortunately, I am a philosophy teacher... Moreover a French philosophy teacher... which means that I am extraordinarily lousy with computers!
So OMG why, why on God's green Earth do I have to post a post here on the Newbies forum before I may ask my question about IT? Why is my old Mac unable to cope with the format of the SKMB posts (I am currently writing from my wife's laptop)? Why is the Newbies start here forum so far away form the top of the page? Why do I always ask why this and why that?
(This is slipping out of control...)
(Ahem. Let's start afresh.)
My question about IT is this: I read Stephen King's explanation about his original idea of the book and how he came up with the troll in the sewers. Okay. Got it. Yet. Such a powerful story doesn't appear entirely set up in the writer's mind. I believe he muses over the main villain, especially such a mysterious one as IT.
I was therefore wondering: could IT be considered as one of Lovecraft's deities, maybe even a Great Old One similar to Cthulhu? Do readers share this view or am I presuming too much and finding a far-fetched explanation? And what about Stephen King himself? If IT and Derry are somewhat Maine equivalents of Cthulhu and R'lyeh, was it a conscious construct by Stephen King or is it what psychologists could call inconscious anamnesis? (They probably have a specific term for this, but I don't know it.)
Thanx a lot to all SKMB members who would answer me