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Zippo

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About Me

"Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and I am content."

— Robert E. Howard, "Queen of the Black Coast," Weird Tales, May 1934.
"Thursday night I took a bottle up to my room with me, and I got half cockeyed. I got a notion in my head to go over and wake Kendall up and tell him ... I wanted to take him up on that business of going to Canada ... and I'd go there, and in a few days someone from The Man would show up and... But I couldn't get that drunk. It would have been too easy, and there was still a little hope left in me. I had to go on waiting and hoping, losing more of the little that was left of myself."
- Jim Thompson, "Savage Night", 1953.

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My Interests

Music:

Heavy metal/hard rock

Movies:

Horrror, action,'70s kung fu, b-movies of all kind, Greek exploitation, Noir films etc...

Television:

"When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. Bad all around. Bad for every detective, everywhere." Danshiell Hammett, "The Maltese falcon"

Books:

"When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature. That intensity may be a matter of style, situation, character, emotional tone, or idea, or half a dozen other things. It may also be a perfection of control over the movement of a story similar to the control a great pitcher has over the ball." Raymond Chandler
Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Robert E.Howard, H.P.Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Clark Asthon Smith, Henry Kuttner, August Derleth, Cornell Ulritch, Mike Spillane, John Steinbeck. Paco Ignacio Taibo, Vasilis Moskovis, George Martin, Lee Child, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Karl Edward Wagner, Roger Zellanzy, Robert A. Heinlein, Zean-Patric Manchette, Jorz Simenon, Gabriel Garthia Marques, Jerome Charyn, Abraham Merrit, Brian Lumley, Michael Gruber, Ian Rankin, Poppy Britte, Graham Joyce, Graham Greene, Henry Miller, W.R. Burnett, Chester Himes, Pierre Boileau & Thomas Narcejac, Patricia Highsmith, James Chase, James Ellroy, Arturo Pereth Reverte, Jim Thompson, James Crumley, Jack London, Eric Ambler and many more...

Heroes:



Which Cthulhu Mythos character/God are you?
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You scored as Hastur

You are Hastur! Thought to be Cthulu's half brother and rival or the king in yellow, Hastur comes from Carcossa on Hyades. You confuse people and often make those you meet crazy. No one really knows what to make of you and do you even really know what to make of yourself?


Hastur


80%

Nyarlathotep


75%

Nodens


65%

Shub Niggurath


60%

Cthulhu


55%

Yog-Sothoth


50%

Azathoth


45% ..

My Blog

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (part.2)

10 >      However, I went to bed, and this morning, at about half past eight, I was awakened by my footman, who said to me: "Madame Sable has asked to see you immediately, Monsie...
Posted by Zippo on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:28:00 PST

The Horla by Guy de Maupassant (part.1)

MAY 8. What a lovely day! I have spent all the morning lying on the grass in front of my house, under the enormous plantain tree which covers and shades and shelters the whole of it. I like this part ...
Posted by Zippo on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:23:00 PST

The Fire of Asshurbanipal by Robert E. Howard

The Fire of Asshurbanipal by Robert E.HowardYAR Am squinted carefully down the blue barrel of his Lee-Enfield,called devoutly on Allah and sent a bullet through the brain of aflying rider."Allaho akba...
Posted by Zippo on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:12:00 PST

Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu

CHAPTER I Peg O'Neill Pays the Captain's Debts A very odd thing happened to my uncle, Mr. Watson, of Haddlestone; and to enable you to understand it, I must begin at the beginning. In the year 1822...
Posted by Zippo on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:32:00 PST

The Coming of the White Worm by Clark Asthon Smith

Chapter IX of the Book of Eibon Evagh the warlock, dwelling beside the boreal sea, was aware of many strange and untimely portents in mid-summer. Frorely burned the sun above Mhu Thulan from a welkin ...
Posted by Zippo on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:24:00 PST

Mesmeric Revelation by Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

This is one of my favourite Poe stories. Enjoy it!!Mesmeric Revelation by Edgar Allan PoeWhatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally adm...
Posted by Zippo on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:00:00 PST

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT translated by JESSIE L. WESTON

SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT    After the siege and the assault of Troy, when that burg was destroyed and burnt to ashes, and the traitor tried for his treason, the noble Æneas and h...
Posted by Zippo on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:29:00 PST

Chivalry oath of valor

"Never do outrage nor murder, and always flee treason; also, by no means to be cruel, but to give mercy unto him that asketh mercy, upon pain of forf...
Posted by Zippo on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:43:00 PST

Seven deadly sins quiz

Greed:Medium Gluttony:Low Wrath:Low&nb sp;Sloth:Medium Envy:Very Low Lust:Medium Pride:Medium

Whad do your eyes reveal about you?

..> --> old image placement--> What do your eyes reveal about you? ...
Posted by Zippo on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 11:42:00 PST