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- From: rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski)
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- Subject: Re: H.P.LOvecraft
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:08:40 GMT
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- pmarlowe@noncomf.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (philip marlowe) writes:
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- >s13989bc@UMASSD.EDU writes:
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- >> I feel that Lovecraft is a master of horror writing,
-
- Feelings? Faugh! You pale Anglo-Saxon...read _The_Temple_ until you
- are ready to shoot your own crew for the mutinous low-born swine they are...
-
- >
- > Your points are valid, but (his awful prose style aside),
-
- Friends, net-landers, and infidels, I come to bury Lovecraft,
- not to praise him. For Phillip Marlowe cannot relish HPL's style ...
- and Phillip Marlowe is an honorable man. So are they all, all honorable
- men ...
-
- For Phillip Marlowe never has been obliged, like HPL, to write
- entombed in alien flesh, repulsive to the instinct and baffling to the
- intuitions. Phillip Marlowe's thoughts are *evolved* for the hideous,
- missahpen cortex of his simian body. Not so the dreams of HPL. But
- Marlowe is an honorable man. SO are they all, ALL HONORABLE MEN...!
-
- > HPL's biggest
- >problem was the almost complete lack of well-rendered main characters.
- >Nothing human contrasts the inhuman, and his books are very cold because
- >of it.
- >
- >marlowe
-
- Indeed, HPL had intellectual, sensitive characters, utterly
- incomprehensible to those calots and curs of inferior genes who slaver
- over the moronic autism of illiterati like E.E. "Doc" SMith and Ernest
- Hemingway. And indeed were I to show Mr. Marlowe a cunieform tablet
- he would think it a bit of dried mud. His perceptions are entirely
- accurate, and they ought to be recorded for posterity. His own
- continued existence, is, of course, an undesirable and useless strain
- upon this planet's supply of oxygen and living space.
-
- Luck
- Rick
-