Quote:He was a marvellous old character, with all the colourful and slightly baffling turns of phrase you tend to get from an American. He told me about friends of his who came from Yuggoth, which I would imagine is some town in Massachusettes, or perhaps an outpost like Rhode Island since he specified it was "beyond the rim." He made it sound a jolly interesting place, at any rate, and even offered me a trip there with, as he said, my intelligence contained in an appropriate vessel. I imagine The Queen Mary was the vessel that he had in mind, and I'll admit to being flattered by the way he'd noticed my intelligence on such short acquaintance, since it is a quality that far too many people seem to overlook.Alan Moore's Black Dossier graphic novel (3rd in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series) contains a disturbing crossover between Call of Cthulhu and the Bertram Wooster stories (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Wooster).
He rattled on like this for absolutely ages, telling me about all of these retired chaps that he knew, "old ones" as he referred to them, who'd apparently been overseas or somewhere, but were anxious to return here "when the stars were right." I believe he mentioned an endearing rogue called something like "Cool Lulu," which to my ears sounded like it might be a Red Indian name, who seemed to lead a leisurely, agreeable old life, sleeping and dreaming at a place called Riley, possibly a reservation of some kind.
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