And speaking of things Lovecraftian, I
> re-read Philip K. Dick's VALIS trilogy earlier this
> year and saw some things in VALIS that, if I didn't
> know were based on personal experience, I would have
> thought were inspired by Lovecraft. Most notably the
> "pink light" that is not part of the known color
> spectrum(I suppose the characters call it "pink" for
> the sake of convenience), and the concept of
> "plasmates", which are aliens in the form of living
> information that use humans as hosts, which sounds a
> lot like Lovecraft's Great Race from "The Shadow out
> of Time." Also related to "Shadow" is a sense of the
> illusionary nature of time in the novel. On a side
> note, when I first read THE TRANSMIGRATION OF TIMOTHY
> ARCHER(part three of the trilogy) I thought the
> ZADOKITE DOCUMENTS(an ancient text that Timothy Archer
> is translating in the novel) were real.
>
> bye bye
> jty
somewhere in bruce gillespie's philip k dick: electric shepherd, pkd is quoted
on some aspect of hpl's fiction that he found particularly fascinating ...
possibly on sudden displacements of time, or something like that. i'm not sure
my copy of the book (xeroxed from the university of arizona's copy when i was
interning at the university press back in the summer of '83) is readily
accessible at home (i'm at work right now), but if it is, i'll try to dig the
quote up unless someone else can provide it. i was pretty jazzed to come across
it at the time, since hpl & pkd are far & away my two favorite authors.
dan
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