Semi-OT: Random Mievillainousness

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 02 Dec 2004, 09:38 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu Dec  2 09:38:33 2004
Subject: (urth) Semi-OT: Random Mievillainousness
Message-ID: <1f761737041202093826093afb at mail.gmail.com>

China M. has an article in the Guardian (http://tinyurl.com/6s587)
from which I pull the  following quotes as possibly interesting 
and/or relevant to the recent-ongoing discussion of his work:

*****BEGIN QUOTED TEXT*****
I'm in this business for the monsters. My single favourite monsters 
are the beastmen in The Island of Doctor Moreau. I love the 
octopoid creatures and the giant swine spirit in William Hope 
Hodgson. I have a lot of time for pig monsters. I've always liked 
being terrified of monsters from underwater coming up, like the 
Creature from the Black Lagoon. There's a picture of Beatrix 
Potter's Jeremy Fisher with the trout about to bite his foot and 
he hasn't seen it yet. Completely terrifying.

...

Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater 
monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the 
people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of 
enjoying the strange and weird.

...

The weirdest thing I ever saw was in Hyde Park. There was a 
crowd, I joined them, and for the next 10 minutes we stood 
aghast and fascinated watching a pelican eating a pigeon.
*****END QUOTED TEXT*****

--Dan'l

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