--- In [email protected], "J.T. Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great essay. Thanks, jty. > I remember reading somewhere that > Ligotti preferred Lovecraft's earlier works, which I > thought was interesting since his current "literary" > reputation is based almost wholly on his later works, > so it was nice to this this expanded upon. The > comparison between the Lovecraft/Ligotti influence and > the Dunsany/Lovecraft influence was very fitting. It > reminds me of LOvecraft's own dissapointment with > Dunsany's later(at least in HPL's lifetime) fiction > because of the "jaded" and ironic point of view that > Dunsany started to bring to his fantasies-- perhaps, > in Ligotti's mind, analogous to Lovecraft's own switch > from supernaturalism and fantasy to science fiction > and a sort of "realism"? I think Robert Price called > it his "repudiation" of supernaturalism, which I think > might explain why Joshi, as an atheist, might feel > more of a connection to them. I had forgotten or didn't know that Price had written about this. I'm guessing it was probably in an issue of Lovecraft studies, whose entire run I really should make the effort to secure and read some day. Your associative thought process demonstrated above, by the way, is exactly the sort of thing that made my Lovecraft-Ligotti essay expand to a length I hadn't anticipated. I went in thinking it would be only a few thousand words long, but then everything I wrote suggested two other things, and they suggested four more things, and so on, over a span of several months. > I'm currently reading > the Lovecraft LOA volume; when I got to "Pickman's > Model" I remembered a comment somewhere that the > story almost seems like a "justification" of > Lovecraft's later "realistic" technique, and I could > see how it could be read as such. I wish you could recall who had said this, and in what context, because I think it's quite an interesting observation. And I, too, can see the logic of it. > I'm looking forward to the rest of the essays. Other authors to be addressed will include, Poe, Nabokov, Bruno Schulz, Thomas Bernhard, William Burroughs, Borges, Celine, Cioran, Schopenhauer, Paul Valery, U.G. Krishnamurti, Douglas Harding, and more. I won't be writing all of the essays because I'm not qualified to do so, although I'll be handling a fair share. I don't think any of them will be as long or extensive as the Lovecraft one. This first one just required more attention and depth, given the supreme significance of Lovecraft in Ligotti's life and work. Best wishes, Matt Cardin ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/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/
