Message-ID: <38BFE5C9.4F285ED2@connect.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 09:18:18 -0700 From: Abaddon Reply-To: abaddon@connect.ab.ca Organization: World Crime League X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 (Macintosh; U; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.mythology,alt.necronomicon,alt.horror.cthulhu,sci.skeptic,alt.paranet.skeptic Subject: Re: The Book of Power: Evaluating the Necronomicon (was ...) References: <88bm0l$l7v$1@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> <20000216173045.03883.00001570@ng-ce1.aol.com> <88gf57$fan@bolt.sonic.net> <88ioet$d5v$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <88p6q3$i38@bolt.sonic.net> <89enj6$orb@bolt.sonic.net> <89fc7r$fv8@bolt.sonic.net> <38c2c677.15799764@news.ij.net> <38BBC6A6.EF51280E@yahoo.com> <38BE9E43.FD862EF6@magick.nu> <89mks2$ha0@bolt.sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp0147.connect.ab.ca X-Trace: 3 Mar 2000 09:26:23 -0700, ppp0147.connect.ab.ca Lines: 71 Path: typhoon.sonic.net!pants.skycache.com!news.bigsky.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!torn!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!hekyl.ab.tac.net!news.tac.net!skylite.connect.ab.ca!ppp0147.connect.ab.ca Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:21777 alt.mythology:57610 alt.necronomicon:10313 alt.horror.cthulhu:53785 sci.skeptic:397357 alt.paranet.skeptic:21056 ny'rl'thot'p wrote: > MERKVRIVS : > >Some observations I've had concerning the Necronomicon: > >(Sorry if it seems a bit long.) > > > >7. The Mad Arab story is fairly lame given that he all but writes his > >own death scene. > > >& The stars grow dim in their places, and the Moon pales before me, > >& as though a Veil were blown across its flame. Dog-faced demons > >& approach the circumfrance of my sanctuary. Strange lines appear > >& carved on my door and walls, and the light from the Window grows > >& increasingly dim. > >& A wind has risen. > >& The Dark Waters stir. > >& This is the Book of the Servant of the Gods.... > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > _Necronomicon_ (Avon Books), the Testimony of the Mad Arab, > > the second part p. 218 > > ____________________________________________________________ > > does this have ANY correlate to quotation from Lovecraft's work? > None that I have ever read. > > the smallest possible construction of a Necronomicon would contain > the quotes from Lovecraft's works on pages numbered appropriately, > whether or not they pertained to a numerological sequence. the book > would also conform to Lovecraft's general description also, and its > content would resemble in character the historical influences that > Lovecraft described in certainty. any ambiguity in HPL's data would > allow some variation, and the rest would have to conform to the > minimal standards constructed. > > at some point I'll begin a compilation of exactly what HPL DID say > about the book, and possibly proceed to other "Cthulhu Mythos" > authors who added to the corpus, unless someone else would like to > do this work or knows where it is already accomplished and would > like to refer me. thanks. > Try Chaosiums _The Necronomicon_ which is a collection of fiction on or about the Book as well as a reprint of Lin Carter's hoax, and a few scholarly essays on the Book itself as a phenomenon. Some of the stories aren't too bad, and Robert Price's essays are alway interesting and informative. > > n'yrl'thot'p > -- > mailto:nagasiva@luckymojo.com ; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html > mailto:boboroshi@satanservice.org ; http://www.satanservice.org/ > emailed replies may be posted; cc replies if response desired Abaddon. -- "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. . ." --H.P. Lovecraft