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Dear Howie,
Last week I received a you probably dont remember me note from a man I went to a school dance with nineteen years ago. He is married and has three kids, but states he is not happy. What should I do?
Concerned Lady
Dear Concerned Lady:
Although humankind has a yearning toward whatever is redolent of mystery and allurement, it is well that certain lacunae in our knowledge should remain forever unfilled. Your shadowy correspondents mention of the ill-regarded numbers nineteen and three recalls an unutterable experiment performed on sticklebacks by the Swedish icthyologist Dalgaard. I dare not describe his observations, but he concluded that, the longer we can remain innocent of our place in the cosmos, the better it must augur for our mental integrity. He came to understand there was more meaning than is commonly supposed in the nebulous half-inscriptions found on abandoned wharves while who knows what malign significance underlies the latest findings on the growth of angiosperms, or the cycle of the solar spots? What of the transgalactic pulsings that have cost more than one astronomer his powers of reasoning? I have heard it whispered that the imprints found on Dalgaards pillow, toward the end, resembled the fronds of a kind of bracken previously unknown to botany. The muffled clattering sounds from my roof impel me hastily to conclude,
Yrs most cordially & sincerely, HPL.
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Aristus
(66,444 posts)I understand the real HPL often answered correspondence this way.
That's a lot funnier than the Dread Necronomicon written by the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazrad and presently housed in a secret locked room at Miskatonic University in Arkham mass
flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)WhoIsNumberNone
(7,875 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Today!
This weird crap happens to me all the time. Something I think about comes up again later. Soooo weirrrrd!