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- From: ano@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Adrian Ogden)
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- Subject: Re: The Annotated Pratchett File, v5.0 - part 2 of 3
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- Date: 26 Jan 93 10:06:14 GMT
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- rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
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- >I don't even need to look this one up (although I did check it for
- >your peace of mind), H.P. Lovecraft is one of my favorite writers.
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- > That is not dead which can eternal lie,
- > And with strange aeons [even] death may die.
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- >This first appears in The Nameless City and refers to the City (once
- >without the "even," then with). It is repeated elsewhere by Derleth.
- >It enjoyed a resurgence when Metallica used it in "The Thing That
- >Should Not Be". Say what you want about them, they're well read.
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- Iron Maiden used it too. It's on the cover of the "Live After Death"
- album, as an epitaph on Eddie's gravestone.
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