Lectors wanted

[Swatopluk]

Hi!
I am just two songs short of finishing my fourth Choral Squid Songbook and plan to combine all of them (i.e. a full 100) in an omnibus. But as you all know, once you type so much stuff there are inevitavly to be errors in it, from simple typos to grammar and language errors. There are also some artistic judgements postponed on some lines/words. Additionally a general check on the accuracy of the origins of the originals would be helpful.

So I would appreciate it, if all the siblings would help me to iron out those.
Who is willing to help?

Warning: Some might consider the parodying (parrot dying?  ) of some songs to be inappropriate and I did some quite nasty things there.

[Pachyderm]

Count me in.

[beagle]

I've been notoriously bad at getting round to it in the past, but might be able to vet a few.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

I'll beta, if you so wish.

[Aggie]

Admittedly, and unfortunately, I have not even got 'round to your thesis. 

Otherwise I'd love to help, at least on error.  No artistic judgments here. 


_{(I am scarce on reading time these days - I cannot even finish the magazine I'm subscribed to before the next edition shows up in the mailbox  I mean really - a freakin magazine)}

[Swatopluk]

I just posted the last ones and now will try to prepare the pdf for the omnibus.
Is somebody here talented enough to sketch an Omnibus () steered by Cthulhu ()?

[Swatopluk]

OK, here's the title page

[Pachyderm]

Personally, I would remove the That Is, and make the writing  under the picture italicised and much smaller, with a fake "quotation" from an Elder One.

But that's just me. I love the picture, though.

[Swatopluk]

The "that is" is actually an allusion to the Luther Bible 
Biblia/That is the/Whole Bible/German...

It's just the first attempt

That picture took a lot of work, given that I only had MS Paint and a few downloaded images at my disposure

http://www.ub.uni-leipzig.de/img/die_ubl/sosa/rundgang/gross/186lufft.jpg

[Pachyderm]

See,this is where my basic lack of religious knowledge lets me down...

[Swatopluk]

OK, here's the finished version ready for lectoring and criticism

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

These are pretty much epic.  Relatively little to correct/ask about so far, I think.

Main inspiration are of course The Call of Cthulhu and Shadow over Innsmouth...

should read something like, "Main inspirations are of course The Call of Cthulhu and Shadow over Innsmouth..."

In Alhazred's Story, is it supposed to read, "IT will find me" or 'It will find me"?

I must finish beta'ing later, alas. My laundry calls and the wireless connection is tenuous at best.

[Swatopluk]

'IT' in the same way as people write 'LOrd' at the beginning of a sentence in order to distinguish between a simple nobleman and God. For the same reason 'He' and 'HE' can be found on other occasions in the songs (referring to a Great Old One then)

[Swatopluk]

I have to heavily update the link list. I will do so in the next few days

[Swatopluk]

OK, here with the updated link list (I hope this will last longer but please check!)