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- From: pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror
- Subject: Re: H.P.LOvecraft
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 22:53:17 EST
- References: <HARSH.92Nov18132201@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu>
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- harsh@flammulated.owlnet.rice.edu (Anish Harshad Masharani) writes:
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- > The thing that makes Lovecraft so frightening is that when you read his work
- > you enter another world in which there is no God or Good to save you. There
- > are merely the mad Old Ones, who at best are not sentient enough to care abou
- > you, and at worst hate you.
- > --
- > Both God and the government watch over us constantly,
- > but we don't pay God taxes.
- >
- > The King of Fools
- >
-
-
- Exactly. That bleak, terrifying vision is what's made me slog through a
- bunch of his books, and plan to read more. There is more to good fiction,
- however, than an interesting concept.
-
- marlowe
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