What did you do, Ray?

[essentialsaltes]

I couldn't help it.

I bid on the Houdini/HPL astrology lot.

Wish me luck, but I expect someone with deep pockets to blow me away. Which may be a relief.

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[gina.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's really cool! Good luck (or not, if the bidding gets too steep). :)

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you posted the original link to the auction--I've been watching it with some interest. I've been sorely tempted to bid myself, but I'm not sure how my wife would take it...

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

There's lots of potential wives around, but how many unpublished Lovecraft manuscripts are there?

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

My wife (a manuscript expert who is keen on transcribing it) is not as adverse as I had thought....

Kitchen remodeling be damned. :)

[zorker.livejournal.com]

Whether you get it or not, at least you won't regret not having tried!
I still regret not shelling out the big chunk of money for the Vance Integral Edition I was eyeing years ago. Now the prices have jumped way up and I still can't justify it.

[aaronjv.livejournal.com]

I, too, am very interested in getting a transcript of this.

So much so that I am offering $100 for the right to get/have such a thing ($250 more to Mike?). Maybe if we all pool our resources together, we can purchase it?

No, of course I am not thinking of the Simpsons episode "The Origin of Radioactive Man", not at all.

It just happens that I am currently writing a CoC RPG scenario starring Houdini. And I need some more inspiration.

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

If I win it, Elegantly Amused Press will publish it. But I can certainly get you the first transcription, though I doubt it will offer much in the way of inspiration.

[rizwank.livejournal.com]

So happy that'd you'd publish it.

It also seems a thing of awesome enough that I'd pitch in to buy it as well. Perhaps just get a bunch of folks to pool in cash to buy it, then offer a split of revenue from the publishing, assuming it nets anything..?

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

I can pretty much guarantee that it will not net any profit.

As it turns out, a syndicate has already formed to pool cash. Someone with deeper pockets than I is going to bid, and I've idiotically offered him money to help outbid myself.

[bellwethr.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope you won... I snuck a bid in during the last minute, but someone has much deeper pockets!

[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

Nope, I believe my syndicate failed.