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Dan Clore  
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 More options Jul 6, 4:19 am
Newsgroups: rec.arts.horror.written, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books, alt.horror.cthulhu, alt.books.ghost-fiction
From: Dan Clore <cl...@columbia-center.org>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:19:56 -0700
Local: Sun, Jul 6 2008 4:19 am
Subject: Re: Parallel Passages

Quadibloc wrote:
> On Jul 5, 5:21 am, Dan Clore <cl...@columbia-center.org> wrote:
>> Authors of occult texts make manifold and strange claims. Yet, they
>> oft confirm one another's revelations in mysterious guise. Behold:

> Ah, yes. I had seen criticisms of Barrett and Laurence for cribbing
> from Agrippa; in the case of Barrett, that was obvious enough, with
> diagrams and mystical alphabets copied over, but you have truly
> supplied a smoking gun of plagiarism.

I thought the really funny part was where Laurence substituted names
with inventions like Bxuzin, Muxdinba, and Ximandibuz. These are
supposed to be Hindus, but they are extremely unconvincing (not to
mention that he left Demetrius unaltered in the middle of these
purported Hindu names). Actually, the last one would make a pretty good
name in a Vancian or Klarkash-Tonian type fantasy. Once I get writing
some fantasy again, I just might have to see what I can plunder from
Laurence--

--
Dan Clore

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