The Sojourner of Worlds Wrote:
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> I always liked Naotalba's Song.
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> Song
I prefer the dream-like strangeness of Cordelia's song but Naotalba sings a good gloomy song of doom.
> Carnamagos is another name that piqued my
> interest. He's mentioned in Xeethra and in some of
> Smith's correspondence, but plays a much more
> prominent role in The Treader of the Dust and The
> Infernal Star, the latter of which describes him
> as Cimmerian. His name also comes up in The Black
> Book, on the list of Zothique stories.
Yes exactly. And he also reminds me more of Bierce's Hali than Alhazred, as someone so mysteriously quoted. Maybe Eibon is overused or has too many stories written directly about him/his book, but I find Carnamagos more creepy and interesting for what little we know.
Btw, Cimmerian? Carnamagos comes from Conan's people?!
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>
> In certain ways, he appears to be the link between
> all of Smith's settings. Pretty impressive, when
> you think about it. There's nothing else
> connecting our era, let alone previous eras, to
> the immeasurably distant future of Zothique...
> except for this one Cimmerian seer.
>
> I almost wanna call him the protagonist.
>
> Concerning Smith and Chambers, this is all I could
> find:
There's also this part of a letter from Smith where he describes himself writing from:
Tower of black jade in
lost Carcosa. Hour
when the twin suns are
both at nadir,
I don't think Smith references other stories nearly as much as Lovecraft, so this must mean The King in Yellow had some special place in his mind.