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From: nt11777@scgvaxd.UUCP (Neal Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Tax relief for Churches--ARRRRGHH
Message-ID: <445@scgvaxd.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 22:08:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 23 22:08:05 1985
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References: <12090@rochester.UUCP> <599@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA> <12312@rochester.UUCP> <37@birtch.UUCP>
Reply-To: nt11777@scgvaxd.UUCP neal thompson
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA
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In article <37@birtch.UUCP> oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev x268) writes:
>
>Ray, wake up and open your eyes!
>
>You are talking nonsence! Have you bothered to simply read "Necronomicon"?
>Or any other version of Satan's Bible? Have you talked with your local Satanist
>group or your neighbourhood witch coven? May be you should!
>

Oleg,

   the Necronomicon is nothing more than a creation of H P Lovecraft
   (circa 1930's and 2nd only to Poe in American horror) that
   he refered to in several of his FICTION stories to spice up the
   plot and make them SOUND realistic.  having read all of the Lovecraft
   that i can get my hands on, i think i could have written the
   Necronomicon over a weekend and a few 6-packs.  when i saw it
   for the first time, i chuckled and was glad some other enterprising
   capitalist (Simon, by "name") had the weekend to devote to it
   (when i read it, i realised "Simon" spent even less time - Lovecraft is
   probably still rolling over in his grave).

>
>So next time you blurb something up on the net, make sure you KNOW WHAT YOU
>ARE TALKING ABOUT!
>

   i wasnt going to bore the net with this literature lesson until you
   made that crack.  its people taking the Necronomicon too seriously
   (as you obviously do) that got the 'cthulhu mythos' (the name of
   H P Lovecraft's more popular works) deleted from the latest
   AD&D 'Deities and Demigods' (by your .sig i assume you know what
   I'M talking about) - a censorship that *really* made me flame.


>-----------------------------------+
>"I disbelieve an army of invisible |
> mind-flayers!"                    |
>"OK. They are *still* not there."  |
>-----------------------------------+
>

    funny ^^^, i like it.


Neal Thompson
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