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Old 9th December 2007, 12:22 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Re: And your first Lovecraft tale was ....?

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Originally Posted by GOLLUM View Post
I also like the way that after having reached such a supsenful climax the author of the story is never able to recapture or indeed relocate the scene or its protagonist. There's something wistful, indeed almost tradgic in this like a love that can never be rekindled.
Absolutely. I could imagine walking those streets and searching and sometimes thinking I'd seen a familiar gambrel roof but never ever finding it. I think it would have haunted him all his life that music and the man who made it.
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