tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post4500912266868024009..comments2024-03-20T19:40:58.078-05:00Comments on The OF Blog: Reflections on weird, almost surreal rural 'scapesLarry Nolenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-50892451279417974792012-09-09T12:37:14.731-05:002012-09-09T12:37:14.731-05:00Yes, my bias is indeed Southern, as I think I admi...Yes, my bias is indeed Southern, as I think I admitted, but the upstate NY and NE mill towns would certainly fit. Didn't that setting inspire some of Lovecraft's fiction?<br /><br />Hélène, I suppose that with the layers of ruined farms and decayed towns that much of the "Old World" would have developed over the centuries, that there would be more integration with the ghosts of the past than here in the US, where in so many parts, there isn't much "history" at all outside of the South, New England, and maybe a few scattered spots. We raze artifacts from our past too readily, I fear. Maybe that's part of the reason why such ruins can spook us.Larry Nolenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001420558511460998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-33720040403681387302012-09-09T09:08:38.917-05:002012-09-09T09:08:38.917-05:00Reading your post from France, it made me realize ...Reading your post from France, it made me realize how much these landscapes are part of a given situation here. It's not that we feel the "weirdness" no more ; I think we live with it to the point that it's an integral part of our Weltanschauung (I'm afraid my English is failing me here).Hélènehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14536087828015387436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8068873.post-17291892299040811492012-09-08T23:45:39.940-05:002012-09-08T23:45:39.940-05:00I can't think of a recent USian example off th...I can't think of a recent USian example off the top of my head, but Jo Walton's landscape in Among Others did conjure that sense of abandoned, yet once lived in places for me.<br /><br />Your bias may be Southern, but there are many such places in upstate NY and around the old New England mill towns that have the same eerie resonance. Perhaps it becomes more prevalent at the edges shared by humanity and wilderness.Trishbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10301068435969452478noreply@blogger.com