On pg. 264 ("...of forms both human and non-human...") D&G use a quote from Lovecraft's short story entitled "Through the Gates of the Silver Key." You can read the entire story here but I will post the paragraph they use from Chapter 4 of the story for you:
There were Carters in settings belonging to every known and suspected age of Earth's history, and to remoter ages of earthly entity transcending knowledge, suspicion, and credibility; Carters of forms both human and non-human, vertebrate and invertebrate, conscious and mindless, animal and vegetable. And more, there were Carters having nothing in common with earthly life, but moving outrageously amidst backgrounds of other planets and systems and galaxies and cosmic continua; spores of eternal life drifting from world to world, universe to universe, yet all equally himself. Some of the glimpses recalled dreams--both faint and vivid, single and persistent--which he had had through the long years since he first began to dream; and a few possessed a haunting, fascinating and almost horrible familiarity which no earthly logic could explain
The story itself is pretty long so you don't really have to read it all. However, Chapter 4 is key.
Another good one that D&G don't reference but relates is "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family". It is a good companion to our discussion about the exception or special one of the pack (on pg. 269 of ATP "...there is a contradiction: between the pack and the loner;...") and it's not too long of a read. Enjoy!
Monday, February 16, 2009
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