30 Days of Meme

Day 13 A Fictional Book.

There are lots of fictional books I'd love to have been able to read. The Encyclopedia Galactica, from the Foundation Novels would be handy to have around for reference, although I'm sure I'd actually use The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy rather more on a day-to-day basis. To sate my interest in the history of palaeontology I'd love a copy of Challenger's Outlines of Vertebrate Evolution, I'd settle for a PDF to go along with the Richard Owen ones I've got from Project Gutenberg.

And of course there are all the books by Princess Irulan about Muad'dib. The Orange Catholic Bible, the Missionaria Protectiva Handbook, etc, etc. However I'll have to stick with one that many of you have heard of, The King In Yellow.

Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink beneath the lake,

The shadows lengthen

In Carcosa.
 

Strange is the night where black stars rise,
And strange moons circle through the skies

But stranger still is

Lost Carcosa.

 

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,

Must die unheard in

Dim Carcosa.

 

Song of my soul, my voice is dead;
Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed

Shall dry and die in

Lost Carcosa.

Hang on, do you think they meant work of fiction? Oh.