SV: (urth) cthulhu mythos, BotNS

[Maru Dubshinki]

On 6/3/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> >>>I honestly don't think there is much direct reference.
> >
> >>Maybe, maybe not. But there is some evidence that Wolfe wet his whistle on
> >>Lovecraft for THE WIZARD KNIGHT. The only literary reference I know of for
> >>"Skai" is the farmland-belted River SKAI beyond which lies the city of
> >>Ulthar where it is illegal to kill a CAT.
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> >> ~ Crush
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> >I take it that that reference for Skai is drawn for a Lovecraft story?
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> >~Maru
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> Oh, yeah, sorry. THE CATS Of ULTHAR among others.

Fortunately, I don't have to just take your word- I can read it online!

http://wikisource.org/wiki/The_Cats_of_Ulthar
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecatsofulthar.htm

God bless public domain works!

~Maru