Re: Re-reading
Posted by:
Knygatin (IP Logged)
Date: 24 March, 2016 03:04AM
By the way, speaking of "the other end of the techno-political spectrum", here are two letters from Clarke's and Dunsany's correspondence:
Kings College,
Strand, W.C.1
16 March 1948
Dear Lord Dunsany,
I think that the enclosed magazine, which I have just received fromt he States, may interest you a good deal. (Arkham House, I notice, is publishing "The Fourth Book of Jorkens".)
"The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" made a considerable impression on me when I first read it some time ago. Have you ever come across any of Lovecraft's work before? As you will see from the editorial note, he was strongly influenced by your earlier writings. His output was very large, and somewhat uneven, but his best stories were masterpieces in their genre. Although they only appeared in magazine form during his life many have now been reprinted in anthologies and collections.
Perhaps you will let me have the magazine back eventually, at your convenience.
My examinations are now looming very large on the horizon, so I am retiring to the country for a month's steady reading.
Very sincerely yours,
Arthur C. Clarke
Dunsany Castle,
Co. Meath
March 20, 1948
Dear Mr. Clarke,
Thank you very much for the Arkham Sampler. I see Lovecraft borrowed my style, and I don't grudge it to him. Indeed, I am glad to be able to read his tales. The Necronomicon reminds me of a brief scene I once sent to a paper called Rhythm, or The Blue Review (I forget which), that was edited by Middleton Murry, which I called The Fifth Act of the Thlobbon of Sapphanal. Middleton Murray printed it, but I don't think he quite made head or tail of it. That was a very long time ago. I will send the magazine back to you shortly. Perhaps when your examination is successfully over & when we are in England, as we shall be from the beginning of April, you might care to come & see us at our small house, Dunstall Priory, Shoreham near Sevenoaks, Kent. It is only 20 miles by electric train from Victoria; & to anyone who contemplates the journeys that you contemplate it is not far, unless you should mistake, as many do, our little Shoreham for the larger on on the sea, in which case the journey to reach us is of a more interplanetary nature.
Yours sincerely
Dunsany
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