091 X_08a Page 6 from H. P. Lovecraft 24-Mar-1933 Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 6.4 X 8.5 (back of X07) From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart : 無料・フリー素材/写真
091 X_08a Page 6 from H. P. Lovecraft 24-Mar-1933 Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 6.4 X 8.5 (back of X07) From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart / CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart)
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| 説明 | Description and Transcription from Henry Paget-Lowe (Juha-Matti Rajala):[This is the verso of the third (& last) sheet (page 6) of a letter from HPL to EHP of 24 March1933; the text of sheets I and II are transcribed in AH's Selected Letters 4 (# 609), pp. 160-62 (with minor elisions).][continued from www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/6943945827/ in/photostream/] of their beloved truck-drivers & elevator boys than the member of literate readers (now totally repelled by the prevailing insufferable crap) they would gain. Thus a less grovelling policy would actually benefit them materially. Actually, cheap readers don’t resent a half-literate story nearly as much as literate readers resent a typical formula product. However—this applies only to special groups like weird & scientifiction where no higher-grade magazines exist. Cheap general magazines have nothing to gain by improvement, since the literate general reader has magazines of his own, & would not have any occasion to purchase the pulp product.As to whether the atmosphere of an “action” story could be made less inadequate without great expansion—I think it could, by a suitably trained & gifted craftsman. What is needed so cryingly is emotional preparation for the incredible events delineated, & this might conceivably be achieved in brief compass through a very discriminating use of words & rhythms & details is setting the scene & establishing the relationship of the characters to it. It would not take paragraphs of description to remove the common & absolutely fatal effect of cheerful casualness in describing tensely tragic or horrible things. But of course, this kind of brief adequacy would not be achieved in slapdash haste. It would take time & thought & real conscientiousness—a genuine natural zeal for intrinsic quality aspect from all other considerations. And all that might be held to fom poor a business policy. Moreover—in certain cases greater length might indeed be necessary. One never can tell. Each separate story dictates its own circumstances. It may be added, that weird or in general strange fiction undoubtedly suffers more than any other kind through devitalisation to the “action” state. This is because the presentation of incredible material depends absolutely on the fancy-cajoling or semi-hypnotising process which nothing but plentiful & convincing atmosphere can set in motion. A non-strange “action” story is not nearly such self-defeating paradox as a story which tries to be strange & ‘actionated’ at the same time.But don’t take any of my remarks seriously. Really, two separate fields are involved. I am constitutionally unfitted to regard the creations of imaginative material as business. All that I know how to do is to strive after excellence (little though I may be able to attain) for its own sake. Editors & public are not in the picture. When it comes to commercial efforst, revision presents an altogether different propostion . . . & I handle as little commercially intented fiction as possible. Yet I’m not by any means condemning the business of popular fiction. It is merely a fild into which I am emotionally unable to enter, & whose psychology I can never fully grasp. I ought not to express opinions on it. ¶ Well—I’ll dry up at last!Yrs in the Peace of Avichi—[cartouche signature]See and hear more Lovecraftian Items at the sister sites to these Flickr collections at:cthulhuwho1.comandwww.youtube.com/user/CthulhuWho1 |
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| 撮影者 | CthulhuWho1 (Will Hart) , Fullerton, U.S.A. |
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