> > --- [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 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > > removed] > > > > 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
turns out the quote i was trying to recall is somewhat disappointingly lacking in detail -- "actually what i'm proposing is a radically new theory as to what is 'real' & what is not. maybe hp lovecraft affected me too much as a kid; i read his stories as they came out in weird tales years ago." this follows several long paragraphs in which dick holds forth on the underlying philosophy of his book the 3 stigmata of palmer eldritch (which i know someone wrote up in that late-'80s stephen jones volume on "the 100 best horror novels of all time," or whatever its title is ... the novel certainly deeply impressed *me* as an 8th-grader), which he summarizes as follows -- "in my novel the protagonist's comfortable private world is disintegrating and an awful, mystical, puzzling, enormous world is expanding -- from elements already there -- to fill the void." that *does* sort of sound like a statement hpl might've made himself in, say, the introduction to supernatural horror in literature, doesn't it? dan ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Has someone you know been affected by illness or disease? Network for Good is THE place to support health awareness efforts! http://us.click.yahoo.com/rkgkPB/UOnJAA/Zx0JAA/keeolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chapel_Perilous/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
