Karn Evil

Duane Hoyt aa5287 at FREENET.LORAIN.OBERLIN.EDU
Sat Nov 11 11:33:24 EST 1995


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>Ah - such ignorance!   It's a wordplay derived from "Carnival".
>Listening to it though always makes me think of Ray Bradbury's scary
>Carnival stories - particularly the one where the horses on the
>merry-go-round go backwards and reverse the passage of Time as well.  I
>suspect Bradbury is why Moorcock had such a subconscious fascination
>with fairground stuff - though it may just be another case of parallel
>evolution in action.
>
Would this story be " Something Wicked This Way Comes" ?
A very good story indeed.  Disney Studios also made a very fine movie of this
book.

Duane

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