How close is truth to fiction?
Posted by:
ArkhamMaid (IP Logged)
Date: 13 April, 2007 03:01PM
After reading Clark Ashton Smith's tales such as "The Expert Lover" and hearing from certain online biographers that he supposedly had mistresses, I began to wonder just how closely Mr. Smith might be compared to his character Mr. Lancelot Colin in his tale. However, at the same time, I can't help but find it impossible to envisage Clark Ashton Smith as possessing the same kind of careless selfishness that Mr. Colin had; in fact, didn't the tale in a way condemn Mr. Colin's actions?
At any rate, I'd be interested in hearing what the rest of you think.
We have seen the darkness
Where charnel things decay,
Where atom moves with atom
In shining swift array,
Like ordered constellations
On some sidereal way.
--from Nyctalops