ArkhamMaid wrote:
Quote:I almost feel as though Lovecraft the materialist did not wholly wish to alter the perception of Smith the mystic/poet and that may account for some of his reserve on that front.
Based upon the HPL/CAS correspondence I have read, I would have to disagree respectfully. I am not at home, now, and so I cannot check my books, but I recall an incipient debate or two in the correspondence where HPL was perfectly willing to take up the cudgels, but where HPL allowed CAS's concessions to mollify him.
CAS clearly did not want to enter into serious debate with Lovecraft, and for good reason, I'd say, as HPL was a ferocious debater even with close friends, and one who gave no quarter. I sense that, in general, CAS was generally not the type to do much debating or arguing, even over topics of purely intellectual disagreement.
As an aside, it's amusing to note that even in an early letter to CAS that absolutely fawns over the then-recently published
Ebony and Crystal, HPL questions CAS's pronunciation/scansion of the word
Uranus as it appears in a line from (I believe)
The Hashish-Eater.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 14 Jan 09 | 03:54PM by Kyberean.