Saturday, 2 August 2014

H.P. Lovecraft and blueberry pie

“Pie is my favourite dessert, and blueberry (for summer) and mince (for winter) are my preferred kinds—with apple as a good all-year-round third. Like to take vanilla ice cream with apple and blueberry pie.” (to Robert E. Howard, 7 November 1932)

My brother PJ gave me this quote (and the picture of the blueberry pie, which he made recently). I have no true reason to quote H.P. Lovecraft, except that we are in the heart of blueberry season. Blueberry being the fruit of my region, I feel some kind of pride knowing the horror writer loved blueberry pie. I used to play Call of Cthulhu around this time of year (more about it here), and I think it could be fitting to play a game today, munching this blueberry pie at the same time.I mentioned it on this post, it is little details like these that make a game more enjoyable and atmospheric.
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3 comments:

  1. jaz@octoberfarm2 August 2014 at 18:52

    i was so happy to be able to quote hp to my son and not have him know this quote because, he knows every other word that lovecraft has written.

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  2. PJ2 August 2014 at 22:01

    C'est pas avec des vrais bleuets, mais parlant de Lovecraft et de tarte... J'ai pas le talent pour faire ça malheureusement.

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  3. Guillaume3 August 2014 at 11:47

    @Jaz-I am so glad I could be of some assistance. Does your son play Call of Cthulhu? If he does, you could make a blueberry pie when he does.
    PJ-Oh le second degré!

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