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- From: lizi@soda.berkeley.edu (Cosma Shalizi)
- Newsgroups: alt.horror.cthulhu
- Subject: Re: Hideous Pnakotic Manuscript.
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 07:42:48 GMT
- Organization: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu (Berkeley Tentacle)
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- In article <1992Nov16.050507.26241@nuscc.nus.sg> matmcinn@nuscc.nus.sg (Brett McInnes) writes:
- >What's so hideous about the HPM? And what is a Pnakot?
- What's so hideous about any of the books? Obviously, any passage that is
- so mind-boggling its readers go utterly insane is very difficult to transmit,
- even for Lovecraft, but from the Dreamlands stories (_The Dream-Quest of
- Unknown Kadath_ and "The Other Gods" spring to mind) it seems the Pnakotic
- Manuscript is _the_ book of hidden knowledge for our dreamlands, as the
- Necronomicon is for the waking world.
- I know of no Lovecraftian references to "Pnakotic" or "Pnakot" other than
- the manuscript itself.
- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi
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