--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> 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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>
On the back cover of one of his books on
Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi lists Dick as an author
influenced by Lovecraft, but I've never seen that
influence mentioned in anything on Dick that I've
read, so if you can find that quote I would love to
see it posted here. But in the Dick biography DIVINE
INVASIONS, there's a quote from an article that Dick
wrote on schizophrenia, that describes Lovecraft as
the "worst case scenario" of the schizophrenic
personality, or something to that effect(I don't know
what happened to my copy of that book so I can't refer
to it now.) Although I don't consider them the best
authors amongst those I like, Dick and Lovecraft are
the authors that I most enjoy re-reading.
bye bye
jty
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