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Study 073 - The Thing of a Thousand Shapes - Part 1
🕑 Added 2024-01-04 14:00:02 +0000 UTCWe're celebrating 101 years of Weird Tales with a look at The Thing of a Thousand Shapes by Otis Adelbert Kline - straight outta the first issue!
Special thanks to reader Andrew Leman - grab up The Temple of Jupiter Ammon now!
Enjoy Kline's essay "Why Weird Tales?" in full!
Non-Fifer musical selection: Gnossienne: No. 1 by Erik Satie
Next up: more shapes!
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First time! I was leaning on some classical pieces when editing at the end of the year:)
Erik Satie as the background readinghmusic?! Is this the first instance or have I just missed the previous ones..
So what you’re saying, Chris, is, if something started shuffling around under your bed and continued to shuffle forever then that would just become your life. You’d live in bed. You know, fact often overlooked, that’s actually the reason why the grandparents in Charlie and the chocolate factory never got out of bed. It’s all detailed in Roald Dahl’s unpublished manuscript, “Grampa Joe and the Conger Eel”
