The King in Yellow is a fictional play in the story and story collection of the same name by Robert W. Chambers.
Aha. Thank you. So it is like The Necronomicon.
I kissed him, and I told him that I loved him. And I killed him.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Aug 03, 2004 9:28:40 am PDT #5499 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2004 10:13:05 am PDT #5500 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It was Lovecraft's inspiration for the Necronomicon.
Actually, Blish's "More Light" was my introduction to Chambers. I'd never even heard of the play or stories up to that point, but Blish's take was interesting enough to make me go looking for it.
ETA: I've just read the first couple of pages of the play itself—the language seems suspiciously modern for something that was supposedly written by a sublime/blasphemous French playwright over a century ago. It's too early to judge for sure, but I think Blish did a better job of capturing the elegance of speech and sense of portent that the play should possess.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2004 10:19:56 am PDT #5501 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Connie Neil - Aug 03, 2004 10:20:57 am PDT #5502 of 10002
brillig
Note to self: watch Matt for unexplained psychotic breaks and odd chanting.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 03, 2004 10:22:10 am PDT #5503 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Pfft! As if I needed a cursed play to drive me to that.
Jess M. - Aug 03, 2004 10:32:38 am PDT #5504 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
Book 4 in the Thursday Next series is being released...thursday, August 5.
Fay - Aug 03, 2004 10:42:22 am PDT #5505 of 10002
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Dude! It's like Ringu in print form, yes?
Kate P. - Aug 03, 2004 11:14:30 am PDT #5506 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Book 4 in the Thursday Next series is being released...thursday, August 5.
Heh.
The title is Something Rotten. I may get it from the library and skim, but the last one wore my patience pretty thin. And The New York Times Book Review (as quoted on the Amazon page) is calling the series Harry Potter Just For Adults? Uh, I don't think so.
Lyra Jane - Aug 03, 2004 12:38:43 pm PDT #5507 of 10002
Up with the sun
I lost patience with Thursday Next halfway through the first book. Too cutesy for me by half.
JoeCrow - Aug 03, 2004 1:18:22 pm PDT #5508 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Dude! It's like Ringu in print form, yes?
Pretty much, yes.