OFF: was Monster Magnet, now HRGiger

[Jon Jarrett]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Nick Medford wrote:

> The Necronomicon (book of dead names) is a fictitious "ancient manuscript"
> dreamed up by HP Lovecraft and often mentioned in his overheated purple
> prose short stories (there's a few stories by him I really like, but
> generally there's just too much of the Terrible Old Ones waving their
> Hideous Slimy Tentacles around, usually under the light of a Gibbous Moon
> during a Night of Sickening Dread.. you get the picture). I have no idea
> who JP Lovecraft is/was and suspect that was a misprint or other error.
>
> The kind of people that have difficulty distinguishing fantasy and reality
> often have a particular enthusiasm for Lovecraft, and may claim that his
> stories were based on another plane of reality that revealed itself to him
> in his dreams, and that the Necronomicon really exists, and sundry other
> foolish things.

        And thus Nick reveals which conspiracy he's part of! <clings to
_Illuminatus!_> Yours,
                        Jon

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