Tales of the Uncanny
David Gentle
gentle_family at btinternet.com
Fri Oct 26 21:03:43 CDT 2007
<<<<David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
the mind-blowing, reality-bending "It Came From Inner Space!" from
1963 Book Three: Tales of the Uncanny
http://bp0.blogger.com/_8ie37mgxIXA/RxrMWb4XbBI/AAAAAAAAB6M/ezhcvxixOA8/s1600-h/HY+10.jpg
"To him I''m as insubstantial as a flat dot with no thickness would be
to me. I can slide between the 4-D atoms of his body!
"I did it! I'm inside him! If my calculations are correct these
endless metaphysical reaches we're flying through must be the
creature's brain!! - existing at right angles to our universe, exempt
from our laws. It's bigger inside than out! These fantastic shapes
must be its neural clusters and synapses!>>
O man......1963..........metaphysical.....'right angles' to our world....
'bigger inside than out"..........
was TRP reading comics like these at 26?...........Yes, I'd guess
and/or he had the same kind of mind as whoever wrote that one......
a keeper...a poster somewhere.......
Does Pynchon Notes take short little stuff like this anymore?
mark>>
Wasn't that a 1990s Alan Moore comic in the style of a '60s thing?
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/23/tales-of-the-uncanny.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_(comic_book)
There is a fairly obvious Fantastic Four bit in GR though.
David Gentle
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