User talk:Pg23
I don't want to post to the wiki per se...I am a first time reader, and while blown away by the absolute gorgeousness I am not reading the correct edition to create a proper comment...(peguin deluxe edition, with Frank Miller cover, 775 pages)....but the scene where R.Mexico confronts G. Rozsavolgyi in Pointsman's office in 12th House, (pg 645-646 in this edition), refers to a particular corner of the room which Rozsavolgyi retreats to as..."kind of an optic anomaly here, just a straight , square room , no odd shaped polyhedrons in Twelfth House... and still, this stange, unaccountable prism of shadow in the corner... (etc...)"...seems like a reference to Lovecraft's "Dreams In the Witchhouse." A corner of a room with special extra dimensional properties... Here is a short quote from that story, but considering the Rozsavolgyi character is based on Lugosi to some degree, along with the semi-fantastic nature of the entire section of the book... it sort of slips into place... and with some of the references in "ATD" to Lovecraft...
Quoted from http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/dreamswitchhouse.htm
From "Dreams in the Witch House" HP Lovecraft
"The touch of brain-fever and the dreams began early in February. For some time, apparently, the curious angles of Gilman's room had been having a strange, almost hypnotic effect on him; and as the bleak winter advanced he had found himself staring more and more intently at the corner where the down-slanting ceiling met the inward-slanting wall. About this period his inability to concentrate on his formal studies worried him considerably, his apprehensions about the mid-year examinations being very acute. But the exaggerated sense of bearing was scarcely less annoying. Life had become an insistent and almost unendurable cacophony, and there was that constant, terrifying impression of other sounds - perhaps from regions beyond life - trembling on the very brink of audibility. So far as concrete noises went, the rats in the ancient partitions were the worst. Sometimes their scratching seemed not only furtive but deliberate. When it came from beyond the slanting north wall it was mixed with a sort of dry rattling; and when it came from the century-closed loft above the slanting ceiling Gilman always braced himself as if expecting some horror which only bided its time before descending to engulf him utterly."
I don't know if this has been noticed before, but it stood out to me.. I am really not qualified to be any kind of annotater, despite loving the book... but being also a fan of HPL I thought I would pass this on...
