The characters talking in said scene are both acidhead occult nerds who wind up in the same cab on a really rainy night. The writing is a bit clumsy—this is very early Campbell, mind—but the premise and the scenario are great and twisted and there are moments of self-aware humour like that which are just such fun.
But of course if it had described what's only hinted at in there, no museum would touch it.
True point. And as you well know, that particular story takes a merry stroll down that road. Possibly further than "The Voice of the Beach", although that one is scarier by far.
i thought the necronomicon was like a bestiary. why would it be the image of dead laws
He's really vague about what's actually in it, partially because that would detract from the mystique, and partially because it leaves him more free to say whatever he wants about what's in it if he needs it in a story.
I guess you could interpret the title as a description of the laws that hold true for non-living things, or that held true in the past. An image of living laws might be the code of Hammurabi, or Plato's Timaeus. This is the book about dead laws.
"Of the Latin texts now existing one (15th cent.) is known to be in the British Museum under lock and key, while another (17th cent.) is in the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris. A seventeenth-century edition is in the Widener Library at Harvard, and in the library of Miskatonic University at Arkham. Also in the library of the University of Buenos Ayres"
Someone write the story about Borges having read the Necronomicon.
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Can't. Ancient oath against World of Warcraft and all it stands for. Sworn in the Chapel of Adalaise, seat of power for High Queen Uranda, last bastion against the Abyssal Throne. You know how it is.
Can't. Ancient oath against World of Warcraft and all it stands for. Sworn in the Chapel of Adalaise, seat of power for High Queen Uranda, last bastion against the Abyssal Throne. You know how it is.
The truth is, still very little is known about the circumstances of war rugs’ production, distribution, or even the real message the weavers wish to convey through their work. What we do know is that the United States Department of Labor lists carpet-weaving among several trades in Afghanistan that use child and forced labor.
Also, now I'm thinking of how weird DnD Paladins are, from a mechanical perspective. They suffer from a severe case of MAD, have a strict code of conduct, and in exchange... don't really get a whole lot. Out of the "big" classes, they always seemed to be kinda confused.
According to a source the Smithsonian spoke to in 2008 about the World Trade Center rugs, “American servicemen and women frequently buy them in Afghanistan, and Afghani rug traders even get special permits to sell them at military bases.”
Also, now I'm thinking of how weird DnD Paladins are, from a mechanical perspective. They suffer from a severe case of MAD, have a strict code of conduct, and in exchange... don't really get a whole lot. Out of the "big" classes, they always seemed to be kinda confused.
I know, right? It's the one class that I've never felt like playing at all. At least clerics get giant hammers and free healing.
And I'm not a paladin. MTG Player is a cooler class. Even cooler than that, yes.
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True point. And as you well know, that particular story takes a merry stroll down that road. Possibly further than "The Voice of the Beach", although that one is scarier by far.
Idly wondering if my anxiety about being in a hospital is skewing certain measurements.
Prolly the Necronomicon could fit into that.
i had a good night. to bed now
I am heading off. Just dropped in again because I dunno.
I don't know how I should pay for the psychiatry without my parents knowing, but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead