This is what you get for reading the Necronomicon without the proper incantations and initiations first. Now you know why it’s tucked away in the special collections at Miskatonic, rather than just out on the shelves for anyone to read.
This is what you get for reading the Necronomicon without the proper incantations and initiations first.
Klattu Veratta Nic*cough*…
There, I said it!
Now I can take the book…
Geek moment:
FYI, for those that didn’t already know, Bruce Campbell’s line in Army of Darkness originally came from the old Sci Fi fillm, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and was the command used to stop the robot Gort from destroying the Earth.
Nixsays
FYI, for those that didn’t already know, that line originally came from Harry Bates’s brilliant 1940 short story _Farewell to the Master_, which was bastardized and almost completely inverted to yield the trite piece of giant-monster tub-thumping which was _The Day the Earth Stood Still_.
There were no translation problems in that story, no `Klaatu barada nikto’, and, well, the only real similarities between the Gnut and Klaatu in the story and the one in the film were the names and the appearances. And the twist at the end is quite something. It manages to emit the `strange alien’ vibes more strongly than anything else I’ve read except for, perhaps, Terry Carr’s _The Dance of the Changer and the Three_. (Ted Chiang’s _Story Of Your Life_ also comes close.)
(Yes, I do think the film is overrated. How can you tell?)
Ichthyicsays
ooh, thanks!
you’ve one-upped me in geekdom; greatly appreciated!
…and yes, I too think the film is/was way overrated.
The better to grasp your subject matter with, my dear.
This is what you get for reading the Necronomicon without the proper incantations and initiations first. Now you know why it’s tucked away in the special collections at Miskatonic, rather than just out on the shelves for anyone to read.
` That’s where my book went!
This is what you get for reading the Necronomicon without the proper incantations and initiations first.
Klattu Veratta Nic*cough*…
There, I said it!
Now I can take the book…
Geek moment:
FYI, for those that didn’t already know, Bruce Campbell’s line in Army of Darkness originally came from the old Sci Fi fillm, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and was the command used to stop the robot Gort from destroying the Earth.
FYI, for those that didn’t already know, that line originally came from Harry Bates’s brilliant 1940 short story _Farewell to the Master_, which was bastardized and almost completely inverted to yield the trite piece of giant-monster tub-thumping which was _The Day the Earth Stood Still_.
There were no translation problems in that story, no `Klaatu barada nikto’, and, well, the only real similarities between the Gnut and Klaatu in the story and the one in the film were the names and the appearances. And the twist at the end is quite something. It manages to emit the `strange alien’ vibes more strongly than anything else I’ve read except for, perhaps, Terry Carr’s _The Dance of the Changer and the Three_. (Ted Chiang’s _Story Of Your Life_ also comes close.)
(Yes, I do think the film is overrated. How can you tell?)
ooh, thanks!
you’ve one-upped me in geekdom; greatly appreciated!
…and yes, I too think the film is/was way overrated.
Augh, talk.bizarre flashbacks! (“Read. Learn. Evolve”.)