Druidic

A writer you are fond of and seldom miss an opportunity to quote:

I'm not sure what you mean, though I already appreciate it--a song?

Here is something I thought you might like:



Haughty, unconquered, mysterious... the eternal companion of superiority and art... the brother of poetry---- the bland, grave, competent, and patrician cat.
- Cats and Dogs, Lovecraft.

Friendship is only a word, yet you give it meaning, my dear Druidic.

Dear Druidic

Good luck with your eye surgery and re-elevating your ''wounded legs''. As another on TLO once posted, any sign of Druidic and one will know that one is in for a convivial time.

"...well ... you know we have been in an illusion of having power and grace for a long long time ... we think we're exceptional, and with that thought, we deceive ourselves ... the basic human instinct of togetherness, contact, higher contact, lower contact ... no no, we are exceptional ... ha!so we think our little...country or tribe can make the world go round just like we think it should to be fair and just and fun and nourishing ... I don't think so ... all we can do by ego-trying is to make other peoples lives worse ..." --my dear friend John Pi

Quotes by Friedrich Durrenmatt: Resistance at all costs is the most senseless act there is. What literary botches have not received their awards? A story is not finished until it takes the worst turn. Any absurdity is possible between a man and a woman.

Druidic, a great many thanks to you for mentioning the ever-elusive William Scott Home. Perhaps in another life I had heard of him yet why not now is beyond me. He looks rich and promising material! And in regards to Smith's outlook on contemporary writers of horror, I imagine he would simply not care one jot for them. Like Smith, I believe the primary function of a weird tale is the representation of the ultimate, terrible supernatural forces that haunt existence and the frightful consequences therein if one were to foolishly pry into the secret(s). I do not read weird fiction for a linear plot or recognizable, ordinary characters but read it only to view into the lives of lonesome outsiders who are haunted by forces which he cannot comprehend or exorcise, though I still favour the occasional Blackwood and de la Mare.

In authors such as Algernon Blackwood and Walter de la Mare, it seems to me that the accent is primarily on human character. But in their work (at least, in any of it that I have read) one fails to find the highest imaginative horror, the overwhelming sweep of black, gulf-arisen wings, such as is conveyed in the best tales of Ambrose Bierce, Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, where human character is treated more briefly and subversively.-- Clark Ashton Smith

What would CAS think of contemporary horror writers?

Druidic, it's been a long time since I befriended someone on TLO as I'm no longer that active here, but reading your great contributions on the board I just couldn't help it. Thank you for your insightful posts! Best wishes, YH