Kipling Wrote:
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> Kipling Wrote:
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> > "Before the age of the typewriter nobody but
> > schoolchildren ever thought of making each
> letter
> > separately and carefully" (HPL to Donald A.
> > Wollheim, LRB 324). "About the spelling I
> > use--I don't give the matter much thought, but
> > adhere to what seems the most universal &
> > conservative" (LRB 384).
>
> "He held firmly to the spelling, punctuation,
> capitalization, and vocabulary of the eighteenth
> century, whenever and wherever it was possible to
> do so."-James F. Morton, "A Few Memories" Does
> this random generalization then justify
> contravening the author's own words previously
> quoted, as well as the manuscripts themselves? For
> Joshi's personally biased and unprofessional
> reasons, the answer was yes. So we are left with
> an awkward plethora of verbal misspellings in the
> tales, which clearly disrespect Lovecraft's
> intentions. CONTEXT matters!
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Glancing quickly at the photo accompanying Joshi's Wiki entry, does anyone else get the disquieting impression that he might be the very model for Nyarlathotep?
Gasp!
--Sawfish
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