> Oh, I bet by including that afterward the esteemed author is just doing the > “Lovecraft” thing with “Notes on Writing Weird Fiction”. Well, ok. At the same time, I've read Lovecraft (love 'em!) and his Notes on Writing Weird Fiction, and aside from some few-and-far-between, I haven't read any writer that comes close. (The one I'm think of who might is Thomas Ligotti, and he's "different"...) But then, that's natural, when one thinks about it. It's hard to imitate an artist of any kind perfectly. > oh, yeah, eh, hem, before anyone takes me seriously with the above I should > say I Oh, quite. Never in doubt. Besides, who'd want to write like Paarfi? SO says she can't get the sound of John Cleese out of her mind while reading Paarfi. (Now try and get THAT image out!!;) Come on... Monty Python and Dragaera?... Who'da thunk it?!? <grin> Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'