Re: CHAT: Sax Rohmer

Leo Caesius wrote:

>         (BTW, I'm sure that someone here has some idea where Lovecraft's fragments
> of languages originated - but I don't have the foggiest.
Neither does anyone else, except for a few names.  "Abdul Alhazred" (which is
not well-formed Arabic, as it contains two consecutive articles) was a name
devised for Lovecraft at the age of five by a relative, and probably echoes
"Hazard", the surname of Lovecraft's mother.  The "Atlantean high-priest
Klarkash-Ton" is Clark Ashton Smith (double-barreled surname), a friend of
HPL's.  Similarly "Bho-Blok" is Robert Author-of-"Psycho" Bloch.

> I'm unfamiliar with the work of Dorothy L. Sayers.
Ah, what delights await you.  Go thou and read the Peter Wimsey mysteries,
from _Whose Body?_ to _Busman's Honeymoon_ (plus the posthumous collaboration
_Thrones, Dominations_).

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