tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post1689770781969524263..comments2024-03-04T14:52:40.445+02:00Comments on pulpetti: Just a work-related updateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-33527517529843455552012-09-19T17:21:28.967+03:002012-09-19T17:21:28.967+03:00I can only reach forward and TOUCH THE POLISHED GL...I can only reach forward and TOUCH THE POLISHED GLASS!<br /><br />Yeah, the comic book folks took a few stylistic hints there.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-70183473403092547432012-09-19T16:40:11.887+03:002012-09-19T16:40:11.887+03:00But there are dark intimations and prosaic angular...But there are dark intimations and prosaic angularity of your grim and brooding blog post comment that has been previously known only to catachtonic Anglo-Saxon race. Jurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-70917092669476601692012-09-19T16:31:28.772+03:002012-09-19T16:31:28.772+03:00Now, that's not polite, Juri. And my sentence ...Now, that's not polite, Juri. And my sentence doesn't once use the term "indescribable" nor the clause "I cannot bring myself to detail the ghastly vision before me" nor close approximations. And Lovecraft's prose in "Supernatural Horror" is better than that of most of his fiction. Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-70685680929753768942012-09-18T16:11:11.422+03:002012-09-18T16:11:11.422+03:00Now, that's a sentence worthy of Lovecraft! :D...Now, that's a sentence worthy of Lovecraft! :DJurihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03021010310386744591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9919027.post-63380546585881393942012-09-18T15:50:13.813+03:002012-09-18T15:50:13.813+03:00Yes. I've never been afraid to note just how a...Yes. I've never been afraid to note just how awful a writer Lovecraft was as a handler of words. Even Robert Bloch, more than anyone else except for his colleague Fritz Leiber a direct acolyte who took what Lovecraft did and (soon) improved upon it enormously not least by writing about similar matters in good or better prose, seems a bit more defensive than speaking his measured judgment when noting that Lovecraft was reaching for heightened effects with his prose, hence the clumsy over-the-topness of so much of it...it was clear to me from childhood reading on that he was attempting, and failing, to channel Poe...and it didn't always work for Poe.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.com