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Not so much a SF reader, but a great looker-at

Posted by SCOTUSbaby on 2021-April-7 19:42:27, Wednesday
In reply to Adam Selene isn't the only one... posted by Psyco's Child on 2021-April-6 16:09:23, Tuesday
I was not so much a Sci-Fi reader, as I was a great LOOKER-AT of sci-fi covers. The contents were never quite as interesting as the stories I made up in my mind from the covers.

Now, MY master was James Branch Cabell, to whom Heinlein openly looked back as a model for wit. Cabell's prose was saturated with references to the WHOLE European literary tradition, (as is mine, as much as possible) and you'd be reading along, and suddenly find the prose turning into hexameters or tricky Provencal forms with incredibly dense letter-play.

CABELL was fun to read!

I visited the Cabell archives in Virginia Commonwealth University, and was amused to find a flattering and deferential letter to Cabell from Aleister Crowley, autograph, who liked the Gnostic Mass in Jurgen...;)

https://crookedtimber.org/2017/10/14/robert-a-heinlein-and-james-branch-cabell/

---Sb





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