AtD - Anarchy vs Terror
Monte Davis
monte.davis at verizon.net
Fri Dec 1 17:55:38 CST 2006
Jasper Fidget:
> I thought of a Lovecraftian Great Old One or Elder God.
Definitely. Did you read Luc Sante on Lovecraft in the NYRB?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19454
Lovecraft's one hyperdeveloped skill -- "at his best when he suggests,
rather than attempting to describe" -- overlaps with P's talent for
convincing us that he *could* tell us more about those tall figures on the
horizon, or what was making the odd noises in the lost thirteen days, or why
the stamp auctioneer's eyes are so bright... but if he did, he wouldn't
*have* to kill us.
"The thing the archaeologists should never have dug up, let alone brought
back" is also in the movie Relic and at least one X-files episode... but
nobody did it more extravagantly than Lovecraft.
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