April 29, 2013
— Ace I recently read Guy de Maupassant's The Horla, because I was looking for French stuff to read. I read it partly because I'd hear that HP Lovecraft was strongly influenced by it.
Having read it-- boy howdy! Most of the elements of the achetypal Lovecraftian story are all present. There's an average man doubting his sanity, an invisible creature that seems to exist just beyond the physical dimensions, dreams of traveling to stars, strange Goats... there's even a mention of (if I have this right) "backwards fishermen," which seems to contain the seed of the "Innsmouth look."
The big things not present are the Work of Art Which Virally Transmits both Forbidden Knowledge and Madness (taken from American writer R.W. McChamber's The King in Yellow) and the High Academic style of writing Lovecraft used to almost convince you he was talking about real stuff.
The English version of the Horla is here. It's pretty short. I don't know if it's scary or not because it's hard to be scared when you're checking the dictionary every third word (as I had to, reading the French).
In addition, because this is now officially Well-Explored Territory, it doesn't seem to have the freshness it might have had in 1887, and so maybe suffers from the Seinfeld is Unfunny syndrome. (That idea is that wickedly original things wind up being so influential, producing so many variations and offspring, that the original winds up looking unoriginal.)
Bit of a weird thing: de Maupassant actually did feel his sanity slipping from him as he got older (and not even that much older!) -- "Many think that the author himself was insane when he wrote this story."
From the page on Guy de Maupassant himself:
In his later years he developed a constant desire for solitude, an obsession for self-preservation, and a fear of death and crazed paranoia of persecution that came from the syphilis he had contracted in his early days. On January 2, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat and was committed to the celebrated private asylum of Esprit Blanche at Passy, in Paris, where he died on July 6, 1893.
He was 43 when he died.
Wikipedia tells me that Horla is probably a combination of hor, "out," and là , "there," so the term may be intended to say The One Out There, a Lovecraftian sort of name.
Oh: Obviously Lovecraft red some Ambrose Bierce stuff, too.
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Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 29, 2013 01:39 PM (wWrHp)
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Posted by: Dr Spank at April 29, 2013 01:43 PM (4cRnj)
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Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:44 PM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: Hanoverfist at April 29, 2013 01:44 PM (/zmqF)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 01:45 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: pep at April 29, 2013 01:46 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: Born Free at April 29, 2013 01:47 PM (htomV)
Posted by: George Costanza at April 29, 2013 05:45 PM (fbD4J)
Not that anyone really needs to know or gives a shit.
Why do gay people insist on smacking me over the head with their personal life all the time.
I'm not running in the streets demanding parades and all kinds of acceptance because I have heterosexual sex with my wife occasionally.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:47 PM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: Adriane ... at April 29, 2013 01:47 PM (TvO05)
Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 29, 2013 01:47 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Donna V. at April 29, 2013 01:47 PM (R3gO3)
On January 2, 1892, Maupassant tried to commit suicide by cutting his throat
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That's what *they* want you to think.
But I've said too much already...
Posted by: junior at April 29, 2013 01:47 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Chris Christie at April 29, 2013 01:48 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 01:48 PM (LCRYB)
Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 29, 2013 01:48 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Hank Johnson at April 29, 2013 01:48 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: pep at April 29, 2013 01:48 PM (6TB1Z)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 01:48 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 01:49 PM (LCRYB)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 05:48 PM (9XBK2)
Only if there were some written on the bathroom wall over the urinal in a New Jersey Krispy Kreme.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:50 PM (xmcEQ)
Oh....that was a sedate and practically chaste photo.
There is a full-on breast-slip floating around somewhere. Not nipple...the entire breast.
And it is a marvelously formed one to boot.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:51 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 01:51 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: Dr Spank
That was your doppelganger. You were in here, with us. The whole time.
Posted by: The fat guy at the comic shop speaking into an empty Big Gulp cup at April 29, 2013 01:52 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 01:52 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: The HR Department Where You Work [/i] at April 29, 2013 01:52 PM (feFL6)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 05:51 PM (WxO5p)
The natives are revolting!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at April 29, 2013 01:52 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: pep at April 29, 2013 01:53 PM (6TB1Z)
The only story whose title I can recall is "The Diamond Necklace," and it wasn't dry at all. Quite the opposite. it was told in a matter-of-fact tone that was subtly amusing.
Good story, and worth the read.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:53 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 01:53 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at April 29, 2013 01:54 PM (fzFF6)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 01:54 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at April 29, 2013 01:54 PM (4LqKO)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 05:53 PM (9XBK2)
Say no to crack.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:54 PM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 01:55 PM (WxO5p)
were they all the victims of the popularization of Little Orphan Annie? Was it true they were such terrible places that Killing your baby is a better option? Why did we develop foster care which seems to be worse, and are there still Catholic orphanages, run by nuns, in the US? Are there other such places run by other religions? And was the resistance to such options due to the religious nature of them?
I have been pondering. I mean, adopting a kid in the US is really really hard (I am childless and know from experience) But it seems theres got to be a better way than what we have going now with people thinking its kinder to kill a baby than give it up.
When did this attitude change? I think some time in the eighties as i observed it. But i cant be sure. The subject of Lovecraft and Madness and the violence of his stories and the slow slide into a disconnections from reality of his characters causes me to wonder if this is whats happening to our society.
A sort of Cthulhu politics, where they more you agree with the liberal deconstructions, the less in contact with reality you become.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 29, 2013 01:55 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 01:55 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 01:55 PM (LCRYB)
Posted by: Chris Matthews at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (5fSr7)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (4LqKO)
Both equally destructive to womyns, you know.
Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at April 29, 2013 05:54 PM (4LqKO)
Because we've never had a drought anywhere in the world before. They don't know what will happen and it's apparently only natural for women to become prostitutes when farm lands dry up for a few years.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (xmcEQ)
===============
Yeah, James Lileks once did a write-up about it and offered a link to the radio adaptation. It's good. They put an interesting spin on it that gives it a bit more of a punch. You can find it at the link in my name.
Posted by: Kensington at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (Yy2ZT)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Septembrist at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (fMiHM)
Posted by: Insomniac at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (NEIxp)
I love mispronouncing French words. It irritates the shit out of Francophiles.
And if I ever see quiche on a menu, I will loudly announce that I am ordering the egg pie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: That guy rubbing one out with the Sears catalog nursing bras section at April 29, 2013 01:56 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 05:56 PM (LCRYB)
Link in 3rd post.
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:57 PM (xmcEQ)
What a coincidence. Neither am I!
Posted by: Anthony Weiner at April 29, 2013 01:57 PM (5fSr7)
Wikipedia indicates he went insane from syphyllis and died in an institution after an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 29, 2013 01:57 PM (/kI1Q)
The only story whose title I can recall is "The Diamond Necklace," and it wasn't dry at all. Quite the opposite. it was told in a matter-of-fact tone that was subtly amusing.
Good story, and worth the read.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 05:53 PM (/WLC3)
i remember that story i think. I didnt find it amusing if its the one whose money quote is "But my dear, it was paste!" I thought it tragic.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 29, 2013 01:58 PM (r7Ddb)
Try to keep up with the pervs.
http://tinyurl.com/br7h5qz
http://tinyurl.com/bl433jz
[second one is NSFW]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:58 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 01:58 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Elizabethe on the phone at April 29, 2013 01:58 PM (4LqKO)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 01:58 PM (+z4pE)
Well, now that you have ruined it for everyone.....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (/WLC3)
You just know that Sophie Marceau, in that pic, ain't wearin' no undies
Wrong. She is, and you can see them because the dress is ever-so-slightly transparent.
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (D/fQ0)
Tell me about it.
Back in the good old days one could visit and it was a veritable smorgasbord. I didn't have to go skulking around playgrounds with a pocket full of candy like today.
Posted by: Harry Reid at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: wooga at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (2wsy0)
Sorry, but a cursory (pixel by pixel) examination reveals a g-string line.
Posted by: pep at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (6TB1Z)
[second one is NSFW]
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 05:58 PM (/WLC3)
Ladies, please tell me how that happens and you don't know it.....Not that I'm complaining, mind you......
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: cthulhu at April 29, 2013 01:59 PM (tyF2+)
Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder
Sounds like it was a cry for help.
Posted by: That guy who says everything is a "cry for help" at April 29, 2013 02:00 PM (R18D0)
The shit that we professionals have to put up with.
Was that the first or second thing you checked?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 29, 2013 02:00 PM (/WLC3)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 02:01 PM (9XBK2)
Life expectancy is an average, not whether there were some old people. Wiki (I know) says LE was 31 in 1900.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2013 02:02 PM (jKWYf)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 02:02 PM (9XBK2)
Posted by: © Sponge at April 29, 2013 05:56 PM (xmcEQ)
I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry when people cite their IMAGINATION as proof that bad things will happen. "See, I thought of this relationship, so this bad outcome is guaranteed unless we do something!"
It completely eludes their thought process that their imagination might be inaccurate when compared to reality.
Posted by: ConservativeMonster at April 29, 2013 02:02 PM (kLZ5n)
Gee, y'all doing a lot of zooming on that pic, eh?
I was just using my fertile imagination. However, for that second pic of her boobeh, I see I was not far off.
Thank you. You've made an old man very happy.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 02:02 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Bill Clinton [/i] at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (feFL6)
No one thinks it's kinder to murder a baby than give it up. They just don't care and are thinking about themselves and "what will people think!"
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 05:59 PM (WxO5p)
i have actually heard more than one young woman in trouble say this. Thats why i mentioned it. I know foster care is awful, for some (i was lucky and not a baby) but i have seen it work out into wonderful adoptions.
How does such an idea even get into someones head? these girls didnt come up with it on their own
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Bubbles at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (kKzNI)
Wikipedia indicates he went insane from syphyllis and died in an institution after an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
What's nice is that it sounds like he died doing what he loved to do.
Posted by: soothsayer at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (NLH1M)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (9XBK2)
The foundation of all that is funny, is the fart. Everything else is derivative and insists upon itself.
Posted by: Dang, smoking a pipe and farting at April 29, 2013 02:03 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Tami[/i][/b][/u][/s] at April 29, 2013 02:04 PM (X6akg)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 02:05 PM (WxO5p)
It's pronounced "gooey"
Posted by: Guy Pearce at April 29, 2013 02:05 PM (2wsy0)
Posted by: Tami at April 29, 2013 06:04 PM (X6akg)
and their families and anything they love. BET ON IT. Its the Chicago way.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 29, 2013 02:05 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at April 29, 2013 02:06 PM (dBYJK)
Sounds pretty far fetched if you ask me.
Posted by: Obamacare at April 29, 2013 02:07 PM (R18D0)
Congressthing Gwen Moore: better to kill your baby than to let it grow up poor.
http://is.gd/VDeS0z
Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 29, 2013 02:07 PM (/kI1Q)
The foundation of all that is funny, is the fart. Everything else is derivative and insists upon itself.
My darling 7yo GDaughter, the apple of my eye, was over last weekend.
She looks at me while we're playing cards and says, "Pull my finger."
I swear I did not teach her that.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 02:07 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 02:07 PM (9XBK2)
The shit that we professionals have to put up with.
Was that the first or second thing you checked?
Heh. As strange as it may sound, I look at the face first, figure second, and specific parts of the rest of the body sometimes not at all; and wouldn't even have looked at the area in question at all except that something seemed odd and I wanted to see what it was.
Posted by: Grey Fox at April 29, 2013 02:07 PM (D/fQ0)
Precisely. If you made it into the double digits, you would probably live a long time. <<<<<
Sure. like say 43.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2013 02:08 PM (jKWYf)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 02:08 PM (WxO5p)
Posted by: Tami
They'd better stay out of Ft. Marcy Park, if ya know what I mean. And I think ya do.
Posted by: Hilary Clinton at April 29, 2013 02:09 PM (R18D0)
The only legal cat houses are in Nevada.
QED
Posted by: @PurpAv at April 29, 2013 02:09 PM (/gHaE)
Women really have traded sex for food in reality.
http://is.gd/0NRHXc
But it's cool when the UN does it.
Posted by: HeideRadieschen Mulder at April 29, 2013 02:09 PM (/kI1Q)
It's not really a new phenomenon. In decades past a pregnant girl would disappear for 6 months to hide the pregnancy before giving the kid up for adoption- she and her family considered it a shameful situation (not without reason). It wasn't just the pregnancy that they were trying to hide, but also the fact that she gave up the baby. If she was going to keep the baby herself, there wouldn't be as much reason to hide the pregnancy.
There's still a pretty strong social stigma against giving up a baby for adoption. Some people get the impression that it's heartless for a woman to give up her baby. Abortion on the other hand, is more an out of sight, out of mind affair.
I'm not defending that mindset, but yeah- it still exists.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at April 29, 2013 02:10 PM (SY2Kh)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 02:11 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at April 29, 2013 02:11 PM (fzFF6)
Ha! sorry ot: I just saw a picture of the NBGay on Drudge and I don't think he is getting many dates from either side.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at April 29, 2013 02:12 PM (jKWYf)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 29, 2013 02:13 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 06:08 PM (WxO5p)
dunno, they were kinda low income, i dont wanna say trashy, but... i think prestige isnt even really a word they consider in relationship to themselves. I think they have been told a story that goes giving it up=foster care, foster care=handing your kid over to pedophile ghouls, or having it adopted by callous uncaring rich folks who will not love the baby.
i think this is our culture's message right now that they somehow got from whatever they read and watch on TV. Perhaps got at school. But i dont live in an area where thinking about "prestige" or worrying about it would get you anything but laughed at.
Posted by: gushka's got a Kitty what plays fetch! ! at April 29, 2013 02:15 PM (r7Ddb)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 02:15 PM (LCRYB)
Posted by: Paranoidgirlinseattle at April 29, 2013 02:15 PM (ltNot)
I never believed these stories until this happened to me. I was in the local grocery store late one night when suddenly this very attractive, slightly older woman was getting very upset that they were out of cucumbers...
Posted by: Dang, penning a letter to Penthouse Forum... at April 29, 2013 02:17 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 02:17 PM (LCRYB)
Posted by: waldo at April 29, 2013 02:18 PM (WcpwN)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 02:19 PM (LCRYB)
I doubt Governor Fattie ever read Maupassant.
Posted by: steevy at April 29, 2013 05:48 PM (9XBK2)
Heh.
When I read Maupassant's Boule de Suif nowadays, I think "Dubya circa 2002".
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 29, 2013 02:20 PM (TIIx5)
So does Grapes of Wrath have some pretty hot action in it? I've never read it.
Posted by: Dang at April 29, 2013 02:23 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 02:24 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: Ragamuffin at April 29, 2013 02:25 PM (fzFF6)
Posted by: ace
Hmm. *puffs on his pipe and thinks about getting dressed*
Posted by: Hugh Heffner at April 29, 2013 02:26 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at April 29, 2013 02:26 PM (C8mVl)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 02:28 PM (LCRYB)
Posted by: wahhaw at April 29, 2013 02:31 PM (k8CqN)
Posted by: Dang at April 29, 2013 02:32 PM (R18D0)
I have absolutely no idea what it's about. I only know the title.
Sorry if I stepped on some cherished book there -- I really know nothing about "The Robe" except the title. And I think, A Robe?
All I can think of is a bath robe.
I guess that makes us even, because the only The Robe I'm familiar with is that movie, having never read the story. No sweat. There could be more than one story with that title.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 02:32 PM (+z4pE)
Posted by: 2x4 Guy Says Hello at April 29, 2013 02:34 PM (LCRYB)
@114 It's not really a new phenomenon. In decades past a pregnant girl would disappear for 6 months to hide the pregnancy before giving the kid up for adoption- she and her family considered it a shameful situation (not without reason). It wasn't just the pregnancy that they were trying to hide, but also the fact that she gave up the baby. If she was going to keep the baby herself, there wouldn't be as much reason to hide the pregnancy.
There's still a pretty strong social stigma against giving up a baby for adoption. Some people get the impression that it's heartless for a woman to give up her baby. Abortion on the other hand, is more an out of sight, out of mind affair.
I'm not defending that mindset, but yeah- it still exists.
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I think it was in Boston where one of the local adoption centers figured out a way to craft a device that would allow a mother to drop her child off at the center in complete anonymity. There was a metal box that the baby would be placed in, and closing the box would cause it to automatically move inside the building where the attending staff could retrieve the baby without the mother's identity ever being known.
Then the state got touchy about the rights of gays to adopt from whichever adoption agency they wanted, and the adoption agency in question - which was a Catholic one, iirc - was forced to close down shortly after introducing the device.
Posted by: junior at April 29, 2013 02:37 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: L, elle at April 29, 2013 02:38 PM (0PiQ4)
GOOD READ ? Posted by: 2x4 Guy Says Hello
In a way. I thought the stories about the writers were interesting. Most of the writings by them were understandably, nutty, and annoying.
Posted by: Dang at April 29, 2013 02:38 PM (R18D0)
Posted by: The One Out There at April 29, 2013 02:39 PM (vJ+mj)
As much as the French annoy me, their food and their literature is amazing.
/don't worry, as a moron I can negate any intellectualization by saying "I really prefer the early Whitesnake as opposed tot the Tawyn Kitean era Whitesnake." I'm... complex you see.
Posted by: shibumi at April 29, 2013 02:39 PM (z63Tr)
Posted by: Waldo Truth at April 29, 2013 02:44 PM (WcpwN)
Posted by: ace at April 29, 2013 02:45 PM (LCRYB)
Just out of curiosity, have you ever seen the movie, Ace? It has a lot of A-Listers in it. Actually, it's not a bad flick. It's more about courage than anything else, at least to me.
Don't sweat your initial opinion. No offense taken. But the title did draw you in, didn't it?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at April 29, 2013 03:01 PM (+z4pE)
*knocks on window*
Hey! Hey, man! Let me in.
*knocks on window*
Hey! Is that KFC you're eating?
Man, I could sure use some KFC. Cuz, man, I am hungry. Ho-o-o-ngry, you know.
Aww, man, and biscuits and honey too?
*knocks on window*
Hey, c'mon. Let me in."
If'n you blow me I'll give you KFC. (And you are female - non-negotiable, BTW)
Posted by: West at April 29, 2013 03:01 PM (LHKGX)
Posted by: Guy who suddemly believes in Global Warming, but only if females haredst hit at April 29, 2013 03:03 PM (LHKGX)
Posted by: Iblis at April 29, 2013 03:09 PM (9221z)
You guys shoulda gone with me in 2012. You want name recognition? I got name recognition. I mean, shit, come on: SMOD? Are you kidding me? Kid came outta nowhere and now he's going right back there. Serves him right. Serves you right, too.
Fucktards.
Posted by: Cthulhu at April 29, 2013 03:10 PM (vtiE6)
Maybe it wasn't disease that made Guy de Maupassant go off his rocker. Perhaps he had promonitions and visions of what would happen to La Belle France in the next century and into the 21st, culminating in Muzzies torching cars.
I would think that would do it.
Posted by: Donna V. at April 29, 2013 03:17 PM (R3gO3)
His fantasy took a lot from Dunsany. It has its moments (I liked "Sarnath") but he couldn't write like Dunsany. Clark Ashton Smith on the other hand could write.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at April 29, 2013 03:59 PM (QTHTd)
Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at April 29, 2013 05:51 PM (WxO5p)
The natives are revolting!
*
*
"Sire, the peasants are revolting!"
"Middle-class is no bargain either."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius (just back from We Made It) at April 30, 2013 07:07 AM (BDU/a)
CBSRMT is public domain, google it, download and listen to a great story...
Posted by: Shoey at April 30, 2013 08:26 AM (jdOk/)
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