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Пока никто не видел, выложили таки новую (условно, вторую-с-половиной, третья ещё грядёт) часть "Лиги Выдающихся Джентльменов" Алана Мура и Кевина О'Нила "Чёрное Досье" (The Black Dossier). Если кто не в курсе о чём речь - смотреть сюда.
1958 год. Британия после правления "ИнгСоца" (первая, ещё из аннотации, и пока самая удачная шутка, хехе). Люди в космосе. Красная Угроза. Битники. Памятник понятно кому в Хайд-Парке. Внук Кэмпиона Бонда - Джимми. И так далее и так далее.
Дорогие мои, по-моему это должно быть очень круто.
Очередной постмодерниский водоворот безумия, теперь не викторианский, а вот такой, посторуэллский.
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Грейт Майндс Синк Элайк

cynical_sceptic@lj
2008-05-10 15:18 (ссылка)

In the late twenties and early thirties a young English writer -- who, like Lovecraft, thоught little of writing twenty thousand word letters -- was in New York , working on his own books and writing the librettos to musicals.

That Lovecraft, a devoted anglophile, was a fan of the man's work is unsurprising. That P.G. Wodehouse was a fan of Weird Tales is perhaps more so. How their lengthy correspondence got into my grubby little hands I do not wish to go into at this point. Suffice it to say that I possess not only their only collaborative novel (alternatively titled The What Ho! On The Threshold and It's the Call of Cthulhu, Jeeves ) but also fragments of their musical, Necronomicon Summer, in which the heroine is called upon to sing those immortal lines:

I may be just a bird in a gilded cage
A captive like a parakeet or dove,
But when a maiden meets a giant lipophage
Her heart gets chewed and broken, like that old adage
-I'm just a fool who
Thought that Cthulhu
Could fall in love!

The similarities between the two authors -- not only in names, but also biography, both of them having been brought up by aunts for example (one of a legion of similarities) leads one to ponder why the collaborations were a failure and covered up by both men, and why they conducted their work together in such secrecy. Certainly the novel throws a fascinating light on both their obsessions (the sequence in which Aunt Agatha is revealed to be Nyarlathotep, and the Wooster-Psmith expedition to the thrice accursed plains of Leng, enlivened by their running battle over Bertie Wooster's bow-tie, spring to mind immediately).

When it is fit for publication; when copyright is cleared; and when the significant question of whether these are the Wodehouse-Lovecraft Letters, or the Lovecraft-Wodehouse Letters (or whether, as been suggested, one should compromise into, for example, the Lovehouse-Wodecraft Letters) has been fully sorted out: then I can assure you that your publication shall be the first to know about it.

© Neal Gayman

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