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The Wiki's plot summary for "A Void", a book that (usually) omits a symbol vital to our vocabulary, also avoids that symbol (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world

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I do not support just calling that wiki "wiki" without including a crucial part of it.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

~~Lovecraft~~ Howard Philip called the author a clown. I don't know if that's an insult or a compliment, given the time period that would have had to be in. Clowns were cool at some point, right?

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's an intriguing way to look at it. I can't find an origin for that quotation, though. Would you kindly link it?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It was literally in the wiki you linked to lol. Though I was mistaken, it wasn't Howard Philip Lovecraft, but "Philip Howard."

Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."