tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18210718.post3233572712677509932..comments2019-10-28T21:23:27.843-04:00Comments on The Whirliblog: J.D. Finchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11717929318883497333noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18210718.post-52067203969171021752007-04-08T12:27:00.000-04:002007-04-08T12:27:00.000-04:00Neat quote you found. It's funny that rules-ish ex...Neat quote you found. It's funny that rules-ish expressions like short story technique were thrown at writers even back then. And it's also funny how the best writers didn't listen to those rules. Seems nothing much has changed there.<BR/><BR/>Lovecraft's one of my favorite reads; I must reread a bunch of his stories. I already have but I can just keep rereading them--they never seem to get old or unweird. Years ago I read <I>The Case of Charles Dexter Ward</I> while on lunch breaks at a copyediting job. The whole building just didn't exist to my mind then, including the stench of the terrible unhealthy petroleum-distillate-filled glues that gave me migraines by noon every day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com