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Re: Annotated Inspirational Reading Bibilography (Score: 1)
by rasgon (notnotallowedyet@hotmail.com) on Mon, October 15, 2001
(User Info | Send a Message) | Oh, one more thing: Edgar Allan Poe. He inspired Lovecraft and virtually every short story writer that ever followed him, directly or indirectly. And check out this quote from his story "Hop-Frog: or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs":
'About the refinements, or, as he called them, the "ghosts" of wit, the king troubled himself very little. He had an especial admiration for breadth in a jest, and would often put up with length, for the sake of it. Over-niceties wearied him. He would have preferred Rabalais's "Gargantua," to the "Zadig" of Voltaire: and, on the whole, practical jokes suited his taste better than verbal ones.'
Of course, the demi-god Zagyg was called Gargantua in the later Gord the Rogue books. I don't recommend that anybody read Voltaire for the sake of Greyhawk, but I do recommend Poe.
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| Parent- Re: ***** by Anonymous on Fri, October 26, 2001
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