Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Thanks!

LK

-----Original Message-----
>From: Monte Davis <monte.davis at verizon.net>
>Sent: Dec 14, 2007 1:46 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Subject: RE: Atdtda23: [46.1i] A passionate heart, 653
>
>Laura sez:
>
>> Haven't read any Lovecraft.  Which book do you recommend?
>
>Try the novella "At the Mountains of Madness," available in several
>collections. I don't actually recommend anything, in that I've never had
>much urge to re-read him since devouring his oeuvre ~40 years back, but
>others seem to get more mileage. He had an unmatched but exceedingly narrow
>talent for a very specific mood of horror, which is captured pretty well in
>P's peculiar *evasiveness* about what the Vormance thing was and did.
>
>"Those who claim to have heard it speak as it made its escape are now safely
>away in the upstate security of Matteawan... languages long dead to the
>world... that awful witness" (145) " is pure Lovecraft.
>