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Re: Lovecraft

From:Grandsire, C.A. <grandsir@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 9, 1999, 7:46
Ed Heil wrote:
> > Grandsire, C.A. wrote: > > Read and write fantasy, read sci-fi too, love Lovecraft, Star Trek and > > Star Wars as well as Asimov and a big deal of Philip K. Dick > > I've always heard that the French appreciated Lovecraft more than > Anglophones ever did (the "Jerry Lewis Effect" :) -- perhaps he > improves in translation. >
I don't think so... But if its style is not what I like best, his world is pretty good and well-worked. The idea of Cosmic Horror I like very much, but the numerous racist words I like less (read: I hate very much).
> Wouldn't it be fun to collect up all the bits of monster-speech and > cultist-speech in Lovecraft ("Y'ha n'thlei! Cthulhu ftagn!" and all > that) in Lovecraft's works and interpolate a conlang from them? >
I know there is the Dapnant, the language of the lizard-people of Lovecraft, but I don't have the URL here. Check my webpage it's on my list of links. Or is the designer of Dapnant here on the list?
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