Re: Lovecraft

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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