Ibid (short story)

"Ibid" is a parody by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1927 or 1928 and first published in the January 1938 issue of O-Wash-Ta-Nong.[1]

"Ibid"
AuthorH. P. Lovecraft
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Parody
Published inO-Wash-Ta-Nong
Publication typePeriodical
Media typePrint (Magazine)
Publication dateJanuary 1938

Summary

"Ibid" is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486-587), whose masterpiece was Op. Cit., "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized once and for all." The piece traces the skull of Ibidus, once the possession of Charlemagne, William the Conqueror and other notables, to the United States, where it travels via Salem, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island to a prairie dog hole in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Satire

The story is prefaced with the epigraph "'...As Ibid says in his famous Lives of the Poets.'--From a student theme". But S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz report that the "target of the satire in 'Ibid' is not so much the follies of students as the pomposity of academic scholarship."[1]

Notes
  1. Joshi, S.T.; Schultz, David E. (2004). An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Hippocampus Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-0974878911.
gollark: Anyway, despite being economically bad (unless you can give special things not available on the open market), you may object that gifting is still good because it forms social bonds.
gollark: Well, if it would actually be better for them than the equivalent money try and convince them so.
gollark: Recommend them it, as I said.
gollark: Unless you want to constrain the other person's choices (see: gift cards) in which case bee you.
gollark: It is generally considered good for the costs of gifts between you to equalise over time. So to skip transaction costs you should simply not exchange money and recommend products to each other periodically.

References
  • H. P. Lovecraft, Miscellaneous Writings.
  • S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia.
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