--- dan bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks for the PKD quotes. That last one does
sound a bit Lovecraftian and could apply to the main
charcters of several HPL stories such as "the Call of
Cthulhu", "The Shadow Out of Time", "The Shadow Over
Innsmouth" and "The Dreams in the Witch House" to name
a few.
bye bye
jty
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