malthaussen
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10/9/2015
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'Tis the season when I re-read the late Roger Zelazny's luminous work, A Night in the Lonesome October. Truly delightful little gumdrop full of lively word-play and loving callbacks to Mary Shelley, H.P. Lovecraft, and others who wrote of the weird, the obscure, and the bizarre. Top it off with a charming, albeit unconventional love story, and a half-dozen major plot twists in the last five pages, and you have a book scribed by a master at the top of his form. And it's narrated by a watchdog, what could one want more?
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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RandomWalker
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10/10/2015
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Good call - it's one of my favourite Zelazny books. My copy is getting a little tatty, come to think of it, may need a new one.
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Lady Sapho Byron
Posts: 770
10/10/2015
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Thanks for brining this book to everyone's attention Mal! It's a wonderful book and it stands up to many re-readings. This year I'm reading one chapter each day.
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Fighting the Menace of Corsetry Since 1892.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
10/10/2015
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I've done that too, Lady Sapho, it is a wonderful tease. Among Roger's best works, not least because it appears he was paying attention to what he was doing (well, except for the little mistake at the end concerning Messrs Morris and McCab, but hey, he was dying at the time, he can be forgiven some distraction).
In fact, I was planning to do that again this year, but then got distracted by this charming game. Not that I'm complaining.
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
10/12/2015
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I see the developers have been influenced by this book as well, if the Rat extermination story is anything to go by.
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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Kade Carrion (an_ocelot)
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10/12/2015
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The Things in the Mirror in the Labyrinth also seemed to be a homage last I was there.
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
10/12/2015
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Could well be! I haven't been around long enough to get to the Labyrinth. This whole place is full of literary allusions, I love it.
In any event, I now have a bloodhound named Snuff and a Parabola Kitten named Graymalk, so the game's afoot!
-- Mal
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"Of two choices, I always take the third."
Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
http://fallenlondon.storynexus.com/Profile/malthaussen
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Gonen
Posts: 817
10/31/2015
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malthaussen wrote:
Among Roger's best works, not least because it appears he was paying attention to what he was doing (well, except for the little mistake at the end concerning Messrs Morris and McCab, but hey, he was dying at the time, he can be forgiven some distraction).
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What was the mistake?
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Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness.
The long journey to eccentricity:
On March 10th, 2018, reached 15 on all quirks, simultaneously. The Quirky Anesthesiologist
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