tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post8284589582132869679..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: When Less Is More, or, Wm Hope Hodgson gets Colley Cibber'dJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-29088702125001569732013-09-15T15:31:34.769-07:002013-09-15T15:31:34.769-07:00Unfortunately, the published who has eviscerated T...Unfortunately, the published who has eviscerated The Night Land, one HiLo Books, has done a similar hatchet job on other books they have reissued, like Edward Shanks's The People of the Ruins and H. Rider Haggard's When the World Shook. This attitude just makes me ignore their entire output, which is unfortunate, as some of their other books I would like to read---just not in their editions.Douglas A. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-26840403788303250522013-09-15T14:45:11.363-07:002013-09-15T14:45:11.363-07:00I only read any of Hodgson for the first time last...I only read any of Hodgson for the first time last night: his short story "The Baumoff Exposion" as anthologized in Douglas Anderson's <i>Tales before Tolkien</i>. Doug relates Hodgson's evocation of darkness to Tolkien's descriptions of Moria; Shelob's Lair may be an ever better fit, but what particularly struck me was the titular character's demonic possession, in which "a horrible mocking voice" uses Christ's words on the cross: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani!" This is just what the Un-man, i.e. Weston possessed, says to Ransom just before they begin to fight in <i>Perelandra</i>, quoting Christ "in hideous parody".N.E. Brigandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17601573470596905112noreply@blogger.com