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Nimbin Business Hours
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I saw this at a shop in Nimbin, a small town in New South Wales, Australia; famous for its hippie culture, backpackers and easy access to cannabis.
"Open most days about 11 or 12. Occasionally as late as 2 or 3. We close at 5.30 or 6 -??? But sometimes its 4 or 5 unless its 11 or 12. Somedays we are not here at all. But lately I've been here just about all the time --- except when I'm someplace else. But I should be here."
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071 J_01a Page Two from H. P. Lovecraft 18-Nov-1932 Letter to E. Hoffmann Price 9 X 7.6 From the 10-May-1981 Envelope to William Hart
Image by California Cthulhu (Will Hart)
Description and Transcription from Henry Paget-Lowe (Juha-Matti Rajala):
[this 2nd page continues the letter (from HPL to Price, 18 November1932) from here: www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/6943903575/ in/photostream/] basis of this type of psychosis. As to further Derlethiana—if you’re game to pay the postage on some 190 pages of thin onion-skin second sheets, I’ll send you (for later return to Derleth) the kid’s real masterpiece—“Evening in Spring”—when he sends me the new & revised version he is just finishing. If that isn’t a real book of art I’ll never utter a critical opinion again! As for the financial side—Pagany, The Midland, & other high-grade experimental magazines of this type do not pay for contributions at all. It is a matter of art, not of business. Their standards are very high, & Derleth bombarded them for six years before they would accept anything of his. Look at the tables of contents & see the type of author that contributes. Derleth’s business is writing cheap junk for W.T. & the pulp detective magazines, plus working in a canning factory at odd seasons. That is one thing. His literary work—the effort of a sensitive personality to live fully & satisfactorily through adequate & finely-modelled self-expression—is something altogether different. One’s business is only a disagreeable means to an end. Dissinterested self-expression is life itself—the thing in order to enjoy which undergo the loathsome process of commercial endeavour. It is an end in itself—not a means toward anything else. If we’re paid for it, that’s just so much ‘velvet’, as the Babbitt’s say.
I note your reasoning on the subject of revision of stories already accepted, but can’t quite concur with all its points. The wish to change a tale which as editor has approved is by no means a reflection on his judgement. The tale, as taken, was good—but there may be a way of making it still better. The editor would, we may assume, have himself thought the new better if he had seen it. In sending it you could make that point quite clear—confidently expecting the editor to like the new version still more than he liked the original fairly-good version. Surely it is generally recognised thing that there are degrees of merit among soundly meritorious items. As for the all-rights business—I dare say you know best about that. I’m no business-man—in fact, I am conspicuously lacking in all that pertains to the commercial mood & psychology.
I am hoping to get at Randolph Carter before many more weeks fly past—but hades, what a turmoil of work I am in! Have been too tied to the house to get any kind of view of the autumn foliage this year. Haven’t seen The Magic Carpet, but must try to get hold of the issue with your Ismeddin story. As a matter of fact, I haven’t had a chance to look at the last three issues of W.T. or the final issue of S.T. I shall shim them through before long—though I can’t bother with the serials.
[continued here: www.flickr.com/photos/cthulhuwho1/6797824810/ in/photostream/]
Randolph Carter = "Through the Gates of the Silver-Key"
S.T. = Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror
W.T. = Weird Tales
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detective business, serious business
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These are some photos that I'll be using for my journal. I've decided to start a series talking about some of the books I read when I was a kid, out of nostalgia and just plain fun. I'm starting with this one, called The Usborne Detective's Handbook.
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