tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post4625231508691425367..comments2024-03-18T18:40:26.310-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: THE CHALDÆAN MYSTERIES: Arthur Machen and Sherlock HolmesDouglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-6666189669156160742016-01-07T07:44:52.543-05:002016-01-07T07:44:52.543-05:00This is a very lovely article, and that highly atm...This is a very lovely article, and that highly atmospheric Conan Doyle passage from THE DEVIL'S FOOT is among my favourite literary quotes of all time. This is also one of my favourite themes that occur in Machen's work -- that of the esoterically-inclined scholar or aesthete, who dwells in otherwise mundane or obscure locations. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-15727579638799804962014-11-05T08:33:10.793-05:002014-11-05T08:33:10.793-05:00...and an unlikely user:
Philip Larkin speaks of ......and an unlikely user: <br />Philip Larkin speaks of "Chaldaean constellations" in Livings III in High Windows. It's an small dramatic monologue by an eighteenth-century academic.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-84784420318102305152014-10-19T21:00:52.583-04:002014-10-19T21:00:52.583-04:00GRS Mead researched it and published a book. That&...GRS Mead researched it and published a book. That's another public domain goodie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-82490860520555707082014-10-15T21:11:12.982-04:002014-10-15T21:11:12.982-04:00"There cannot have been many researchers into..."There cannot have been many researchers into Chaldee roots in London in the early 1890s when Machen wrote his story"<br />Researchers, no, quoters, yes.<br />The Chaldaean Oracles of Zoroaster by W. Wynn Westcott was a popular book among nineteenth century hermeticists and theosophists. Yeats used it in his poetry.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com