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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 12, 2022 14:38:59 GMT
Unless he had some influence on Elizabeth Jane Howard's Three Miles Up, which was included in their joint collection We Are For the Dark. But I don't suppose we will ever know.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 12, 2022 14:58:26 GMT
Unless he had some influence on Elizabeth Jane Howard's Three Miles Up, which was included in their joint collection We Are For the Dark. But I don't suppose we will ever know. It seems reasonable not to count stories written by people other than Robert Aickman as part of Aickman's oeuvre. People seem to be missing the point here. Given his fixation with canals, why did he not write even a single story featuring one? It is a mystery. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 12, 2022 15:26:34 GMT
Unless he had some influence on Elizabeth Jane Howard's Three Miles Up, which was included in their joint collection We Are For the Dark. But I don't suppose we will ever know. It seems reasonable not to count stories written by people other than Robert Aickman as part of Aickman's oeuvre. People seem to be missing the point here. Given his fixation with canals, why did he not write even a single story featuring one? It is a mystery. Someone elsewhere suggested, as the canals were Aickmanās āday jobā, that he wanted a rest from them when writing fiction. I can sympathise with that. Also, I suggest, he might have feared anything he wrote about canals in his sort of fiction may have had an adverse effect on his day job,ā¦? |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 12, 2022 15:41:43 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 12, 2022 16:01:07 GMT
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 12, 2022 16:25:16 GMT
Aickman's Seven Wonders of the Waterways list: [ā¦]Perhaps you, the reader, have visited some, and can tell us about them, and if you agree. I once had the āpleasureā of attritionally having to struggle through 30 locks in a canal boat through a relatively short distance in Wolverhampton, at first looking forward to later visiting more scenic sights on the canal ring, but was unexpectedly made to laboriously turn the boat in a winding-hole and struggle back through the same 30 locks because of weather conditions! Me below on those canals in 1986 and in Venice in 2000 ā-   |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 12, 2022 16:35:28 GMT
Unless he had some influence on Elizabeth Jane Howard's Three Miles Up, which was included in their joint collection We Are For the Dark. But I don't suppose we will ever know. It seems reasonable not to count stories written by people other than Robert Aickman as part of Aickman's oeuvre. People seem to be missing the point here. Given his fixation with canals, why did he not write even a single story featuring one? It is a mystery. What are you talking about? I have included Man of Metal by Pel Torro as part of Aikman's oeuvre just recently. And look forward to adding more forgotten (as he never wrote them) books as the mood takes me. |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 12, 2022 16:45:16 GMT
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 12, 2022 18:20:01 GMT
Aickman's Seven Wonders of the Waterways list: [ā¦]Perhaps you, the reader, have visited some, and can tell us about them, and if you agree. I once had the āpleasureā of attritionally having to struggle through 30 locks in a canal boat through a relatively short distance in Wolverhampton, at first looking forward to later visiting more scenic sights on the canal ring, but was unexpectedly made to laboriously turn the boat in a winding-hole and struggle back through the same 30 locks because of weather conditions! Me below on those canals in 1986 and in Venice in 2000 ā- I like your profile photo Weirdmonger. Was Venice what you imagined it would be? |
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Jan 12, 2022 18:22:48 GMT
I don't know what this chimney is. Edited to say it seems to be in the Salisbury area. |
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Post by weirdmonger on Jan 12, 2022 18:29:52 GMT
I like your profile photo Weirdmonger. Was Venice what you imagined it would be? Thanks. I was there only one day. But pleased to have achieved this ambition. |
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Post by helrunar on Jan 12, 2022 18:33:18 GMT
An interesting feature of the people who lived on the canals is that according to stray references I have come across in various places over the years, some of them were said to carry family traditions of Witchcraft and/or various forms of magic. The one book I saw that was supposed to include a record of material shared by a couple of members of these families--I believe author's name was Tony Steele--was said by another person who seemed to know of what they spoke as having been fabricated. But the form of magic reported was nothing at all like Wicca or grimoire magic so I do wonder.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 12, 2022 19:28:52 GMT
An interesting feature of the people who lived on the canals is that according to stray references I have come across in various places over the years, some of them were said to carry family traditions of Witchcraft and/or various forms of magic. The one book I saw that was supposed to include a record of material shared by a couple of members of these families--I believe author's name was Tony Steele--was said by another person who seemed to know of what they spoke as having been fabricated. But the form of magic reported was nothing at all like Wicca or grimoire magic so I do wonder. H. Most likely they would be in the "cunning folk" tradition, and were more about providing "lucky charms", folk medicine, "unwitching", etc. "Cunning folk" were also consulted when people were having problems with their animals - and canal boats were pulled by horses well into the mid-20th century in Britain. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 12, 2022 19:33:59 GMT
I don't know what this chimney is. Edited to say it seems to be in the Salisbury area. I think it is at Crofton Pumping Station (aka Crofton Beam Engines) on the Kennet & Avon canal in Wiltshire. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 12, 2022 19:57:55 GMT
True. Perhaps I should have specified English canals. If I may say so, Elizabeth Bowenās story HUMAN HABITATION is a perfectly Aickmanesque one heavily featuring English canals. A truly great story that is easily and cheaply found in her Vintage book of collected stories. There are many Aickmanesque gems in there. Your relentless campaign finally made me read "Human Habitation." Pleasant as it was, I have to say I found nothing reminiscent of Aickman in it. |
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