January already...

[shadowtricker]

I hope my friends will forgive me for going an entire month without posting. My belated holiday wishes to you all, with a bit of groveling for forgiveness on the side. To make matters worse, what inspired me to post today is the news of a death. On Christmas itself, Edd Cartier passed away, at the age of 94. I do not expect many of you to know who

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[dragonwhishes]

Wow, Nintey four? That sounds like... well. A good age and a good life.

HAH YES YOU'RE FINALLY READING IT BOOYAH. What's your opinions so far?

[shadowtricker]

It does, and he seems to have had some good recognition from pulp fans during his life as well. It's not a particularly sad passing, as these things go.

I've been reading it... for more than a month, in fact. It's a bit of a tricky thing to wade through. I think I've got a handle on it all, and I've done a fair amount of skimming ahead. I believe I may actually be more than halfway through, what with the plates at the back. It's very interesting, and I did wonder if you were aware it's supposedly set very close to where we live. It would be alarmingly close, if I believed it were true. ;-)
The premise is an interesting one, but it takes a long time to work out exactly what the premise is. I should hope that such a thing would never befall any of us. As near as I can tell the greatest quality that makes these people prey to such a force is a complete lack of honest self-examination. I suspect that people engaged in RP spend so much time examining the motivations and other inner qualities of people that to analyze themselves along

[dragonwhishes]

It is a bit difficult to wade through at first, but it gets a little easier as it goes along. At least it did for me.

We should talk about it sometime over the phone.

[shadowtricker]

It does a bit, once you start reading the footnotes as their own separate book in a sense. The diversionary fantasy of a bucolic few months on the west coast left me utterly confused for a few minutes. It would be tricky even without the two works running side by side, though.

By all means. You may want to wait until I've finished it though.