03-28-2020, 02:50 PM
(03-28-2020, 10:42 AM)cran efly Wrote: Coincidence?"My attitude was still one of absolute materialism, as I wish it still were, and I discounted with almost inexplicable perversity the coincidence of the dream notes and odd cuttings collected by Professor Angell." The Call of Cthulhu
Reminds me of vantablack http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/show...Vantablack
I just finished In the Walls of Eryx, one of Lovecraft's sci-fi short stories, actually one of his last (1935 - COoS was 1927). It's a tale of a space prospector getting caught in an invisible maze trap on Venus while hunting crystals. It's dated though because the spacesuit is made of leather, which seems absurd now. I had the most remarkable flashes of deja vu while reading this. It's a story, like so much of the pulp fiction that I read in my teens and twenties, that I thought I'd completely forgotten, but as I read it, certain passages would ring a bell. That happened while reading the Moorcock book I read last week. Stuff I thought I'd forgotten. Somehow, it's a bit more eerie with Lovecraft.
I'm savoring these short stories, but will review it when I finish it, like always. I mean, what else have I got to do now?
Shadow boxing the apocalypse