090 X_07b Page 5 Detail from H. P. Lovecraft 24-Mar-1933 Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 6.3 X 8.1 (front of X08) From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart : 無料・フリー素材/写真
090 X_07b Page 5 Detail from H. P. Lovecraft 24-Mar-1933 Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 6.3 X 8.1 (front of X08) From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart / CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart)
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| 説明 | Description and Transcription from Henry Paget-Lowe (Juha-Matti Rajala):[This is the front side of the third (& last) sheet (page 5) of a letter from HPL to EHP of 24 March1933; the text of sheets I and II are transcribed in AH's Selected Letters 4 (# 609), pp. 160-62 (with minor elisions); the beginning of the sentence being carried over to this page is missing there:][. . .] about ¾ of W.T. unread for precisely that reason. Nothing academic—but who the hell (aside from the Neanderthaloid what-is-its that form 0.8 of the Eyrie slobberers) could get a feeling of interest out of a statistical table of assertions with no tone-colour, emotional preparation, or menacing atmosphere to remove these assertions from the mere index or chapter-heading class? What is there to give any sense of life—any sense that something besides a cool catalogue of impossible, irrelevant, gratuitous, & doubtfully interesting assertions is being presented—when a tale opens, in effect, line this?“Sacrebleu!” cried de Grandin, “the ghost, it is here! Name of a little blue pig, Friend Trowbridge!”It was night in the old house.In the corner wasa bit of mist shaped like a decomposed corpse with dripping eye-sockets. De Grandin fired at it, but it did not cease its advance.They grappled.[5 column-inches of tussle—Formula B1796341—on]“Friend Trowbridge”, cried the victorious Frenchman, “this is almost uncanny. It is the spirit of a very evil being who lived on the continent of Shalmali 900,000 years ago. Not for many years have I seen such a thing. We must oppose it. But first, let us have some coffee prepared by your so-excellent Nora, after which we will enlist the aid of brave Sergeant Costello.”And so on-ad infinitum . . . ad somnum. However, remember that this has nothing to do with the commercial process of popular-formula manufacture. Flat or not, if this is what the editors believe the herd want, it is obviously the correct thing for quantity production—& all criticism from the standpoint of really interestin & effective narration (according to adult standards) is patently irrelevant & uncalled-for. The only thing is that it’s a pity to see good story material made ineffective in this way for the readers who would appreciate it most in its proper form. Someone ought to go over the cheap magazines & pick out stor-germs which have been ruined by popular treatment; then getting the authors’ permission & actually writing the stories.The trouble is that editors have a very myopic vision & absolutely no regard for excellence as such. They note certain preferences on the part of the mob, & proceed to cater to these without even enquiring whether a better grade of writing could be put over without alienating that mob. It is my belief that if they would ascend two or three notches in the scale of excellence, they would lose far fewer [. . . continued here: www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/6797833776/ in/photostream/]See and hear more Lovecraftian Items at the sister sites to these Flickr collections at:cthulhuwho1.comandwww.youtube.com/user/CthulhuWho1 |
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| 撮影者 | CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart) , Fullerton, U.S.A. |
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