Re: Mr.Genius
From Bateau <Its...@Not-A-Real-Address.com>
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· 5 Jan 2002 22:29 · View full thread
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>On 1 Jan 2002 23:03:27 +0100, Cthulhu <noo...@nowhere.it> wrote:
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>>Taliszanna <tal...@chem4823.usask.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> You are going on the principle, however, that the book was not a
>>> joke to begin with. It is the book that I take the least seriously out of
>>> all.
>>
>>You are going on the principle, however, that you can buy the real
>>Necronomicon at amazon.com. :)
>>
>>It is hard to take seriously a book that doesn't exist.
>>
>> contraffattamente,
>> Cthulhu
>
>well it does. somebody i know had an old copy with a beautiful cover.
>i think over 100 years old. i held it in my own hands.
>
>it was of course not the original (i think nobody has an original
>copy) but a version extended and refined by his ancestors
The Necronomicon was invented by HP Lovecraft. And he didn't even
actually write it. He just mentioned it in his stories. The 'copies'
of it you see around are pure invention based on Lovecraft's Cthulhu
mythos. One of the 'copies' is just a few pages of mysterious looking
script repeated over and over.
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