In this thread I will narrate the life of Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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On Lovecraft's birth

>"Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 A.M. on August 20, 1890, at 194 Angell Street on what was then the eastern edge of the East Side of Providence."

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On Lovecraft's earliest memory

>"I can see myself as a child of 2-and-a-half on the railway bridge at Auburndale, Mass., looking across and downward at the business part of the town, and feeling the imminence of some wonder which I could neither describe nor fully conceive - and there has never been a subsequent hour of my life when kindred sensations have been absent."

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On young Lovecraft's love of toys

>"My favorite toys were very small ones, which would permit of their arrangement in widely extensive scenes. My mode of play was to devote an entire table-top to a scene, which I would proceed to develop as a broad landscape [...] I had all sorts of toy villages with small wooden or cardboard houses, & by combining several of them would often construct cities of considerable extent & intricacy [...] There was a kind of intoxication in being lord of a visible world (albeit a miniature one) & determining the flow of its events."

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I love these threads, please continue m8

Even his life story is Lovecraftian. Is there anyone more influencial to modern day life than based Lovecraft?

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On Lovecraft's solitary youth

>"You will notice that I have made no reference to childish friends & playmates - I had none! The children I knew disliked me, & I disliked them. I was used to adult company & conversation, & despite the fact that I felt shamefully dull beside my elders, I had nothing in common with the infant train. Their romping & shouting puzzled me. I hated mere play & dancing about - in my relaxations I always desired *plot*"

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On Lovecraft's female cousin's memory of him as a young boy

>"Mrs Ethel Phillips Morrish [...] confessed in an interview [...] that she did not much care for her cousin, finding him eccentric and aloof. She became very irritated because Lovecraft did not apparently know how a swing worked.

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On young Lovecraft's father's illness

>"There is little to reason to doubt Lovecraft when he says that "my image of him is but vague": he lived with him for only the first two and a half years of his life [...] The illness that struck Winfield Scott Lovecraft [...] is worth examining in detail. The Butler Hospital medical record reads as follows: For a year past he has shown obscure symptoms of mental disease - doing and saying strange things at times; has, also, grown pale and thin in flesh. He continues his business, however, until Apr 21, when he broke down completely while stopping in Chicago. [...] He was extremely noisy and violent for two days, but was finally quieted by free use of the bromides [...] By December 5 Winfield was said to be failing, with frequent convulsions [...] On December 16, 1896, Winfield developed an ulcer on the penis, possible from masturbation. [...] by the spring of 1898 [...] blood and mucus are found in his stool."

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>>2185259
>/tv/ mods

You /pol/tards are a cancer for all 4chan, the mods /tv/ are also idiots right-wings.


Three threads about that loser, and they delete the one with some worth

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On Lovecraft's father's diagnosis after his death

>"the medical record diagnosed him as having "General Paralysis" [...] Leland E. Hinsie and Robert Jean Campbell write in their Psychiatric Dictionary [...] : "Paresis, general...Also known as general paralysis of the insane (G.P.I.) dementia paralytica, Bayle's disease; the most malignant form of (tertiary) neurosyphilis consisting of direct invasion of the parenchyma of the brain producing a combination of both mental and neurologic symptoms."

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On the early development of Lovecraft's distinctive style

>""I think I am probably the only living person to whom the ancient 18th century idiom is actually a prose and poetic mother-tongue," and he explained how this came about: "At home all the main bookcases in library, parlours, dining-room, and elsewhere were full of standard Victorian junk, [...] But what did I do? What, pray, but go with candles and kerosene lamp to that obscure and nighted aerial crypt - leaving the sunny downstairs 19th century flat, and boring my way through the decades into the late 17th, 18th and early 19th century by means of innumerable crumbling and long-s'd tomes of every size and nature - Spectator, Tatler, Guardian, Idler, Rambler, Dryden, Pope, Thomson, Young, Tickell, Cooke's Hesiod, Ovid by Various Hands, Francis's Horace and Phaedrus, &c. &c. &c.""

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this is interesting thanks

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On young Lovecraft learning about sexual intercourse

>"In the matter of the justly celebrated "facts of life" I didn't wait for oral information, but exhausted the entire subject in the medical section of the family library [...] when I was 8 years old - through Quain's Anatomy (fully illustrated & diagrammed), Dunglinson's Physiology, &c. &c. This was because of curiosity & perplexity concerning the strange reticence & embarassments of adult speech. & the oddly inexplicable allusions & situations in standard literature. The result was the very opposite of what parents generally fear - for instead of giving me an abnormal & precocious interest in sex [...] it virtual killed my interest in the subject. The whole matter was reduced to prosaic mechanism - a mechanism which I rather despised or at least thought non-glamorous because of its purely animal nature & separation from such things as intellect and beauty"

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On Lovecraft's mother attempting to make her son learn to dance

>"Susie also attempted to mould him in ways he found either irritating or repugnant. Around 1898 she tried to enrol him in a children's dancing class; Lovecraft "abhorred the thought" and, fresh from an initial study of Latin, responded with a line from Cicero: "Nemo fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit!" ("Scarcely any sober person dances, unless by chance he is insane".


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On one local girl's memory of young Lovecraft

>"Howard used to go out into the fields in back of my home to study the stars. One early fall evening several of the children in the vicinity assembled to watch him from a distance. Feeling sorry for his loneliness I went up to him and asked him about his telescope and was permitted to look through it. But his language was so technical that I could not understand it and I returned to my group and left him to his lonely study of the heavens."

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>>2185259
>Lovecraft
He saw some shit man. He knew more than he was supposed to.
Have you ever read Mountain of madness? The guy talks about an ancient civ of aliens living at the south pole, hollow earth and all sorts of weird shit.

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>>2185259
Bump for horrors you can hardly imagine.

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On Lovecraft as a young man

>"All this may seem to give the impression that Lovecraft, in spite of his precosciousness, his early health problems, his solitude as a very young boy, and his unsettled nervous condition, was evolving into a relatively "normal" youth with vigorous enthusiasms (except sports and girls, in which he never took any interest). [...] But how normal, really, was he? The later testimony of Stuart Coleman is striking [...] "from the age of 8 to 18, I saw quite a bit of him [...] I won't say I knew him 'well' as I doubt if any of his contemporaries at that time did. He was definitely not a normal child and his companions were few."

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On young Lovecraft's "tics"

>"Harry Brobst [...] spoke to a woman who had gone to high school with Lovecraft. "She [...] described these terrible tics that he had - he'd be sitting in his seat and he'd suddenly up and jump - I think they referred to them as seizures. [...] oh, yes, she remembered him. I guess he scared the student body half to death."

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On young Lovecraft's friendships in highschool

>"Clarence H. Philbrick told me that he and others in high school with Lovecraft made attempts at friendliness but always were rebuffed by a chill disinterest or a shyness that seemed like it; they finally quit their attempts. Lovecraft later did have a few local friends, and loyal ones; the sort who failed to understand him and yet were impressed by his extraordinary range of interests, by his phenomenally exact memory, and by the brilliance of his talk; who found, when they gave him affection, the depth of goodwill and charm to which his later literary friends have testified."

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>>2185270
Bumping for the redpills

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On Lovecraft's habit when making friends

>"Lovecraft was slow to make friends, but once he made them he remained firm and devoted. This is a patter that persisted throughout his life"

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On young Lovecraft's family's declining wealth after his grandfather's death

>"The corporation [Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company] lost their initiative & courage. The corporation was unwisely dissolved at a time when my grandfather would have persevered - with the result that others reaped the wealth which should have gone to its stockholders. My mother & I were forced to vacate the beautiful estate at 454 Agnell Street, & to enter the less spacious abode at 598, three squares eastward."

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On young Lovecraft's fear of poverty

>"Money as a definite conception was wholly absent from my horizon. [...] But actual decline did set in when I was about ten years old [...] Even before my grandfather's death a sense of peril and falling-off was strong within me, so that I felt a kinship to Poe's gloomy heroes with their broken fortunes."

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On the effect on Lovecraft of his family's declining wealth

>"This was probably the most traumatic event Lovecraft experienced prior to the death of his mother [...] By 1904 he and his mother were living alone [...] at 454 Angell Street [...] To compound the tragedy, Lovecraft's beloved black cat, Nigger-Man, disappeared sometime in 1904. This was the only pet Lovecraft ever owned in his life [...] Nigger-Man's loss perhaps symbolised the loss of his birthplace as no other event cold."

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is this lovecraftian?

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On Lovecraft's worldview in his teens

>"By my thirteenth birthday I was thoroughly impressed with man's impermanence and insignificance, and by my seventeenth, about which time I did some particularly detailed writing on the subject, I had formed in all essential particulars my present pessimistic cosmic views. The futility of all existence began to impress and oppress me; and my references to human progress, formerly hopeful, began to decline in enthusiasm. [...] I looked on man as if from another planet. He was merely an interesting species presented for study and classification."

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On young Lovecraft's existential burden

>"Many times in my youth I was so exhausted by the sheer burden of consciousness & mental & physical activity that I had to drop out of school for a greater or lesser period & take a complete rest free from all responsibilities; [...] In those days I could hardly bear to see or speak to anyone, & liked to shut out the world by pulling down dark shades & using artificial light."

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On young Lovecraft attempting to educate a young Swedish boy

>"I came a cross a superficially bright Swedish boy in the Public Library - he worked in the "stack" where the books are kept - and invited him to the house to broaden his mentality (I was fifteen and he was about the same, though he was smaller and seemed younger). I thought I had uncovered a mute inglorious Milton [...] and despite maternal protest entertained him frequently in my library. I believed in equality then, and reproved him when he called my mother "Ma'am" - I said that a future scientist should not talk like a servant! But ere long he uncovered qualities which did not appeal to me, and I was forced to abandon him to his plebeian fate."

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>>2185259
This board is not your personal blog, you fuckface cunt.

>>2185263
Masturbating so much that you get an ulcer on your penis? Is that a thing, what the fuck. I did not know that about Lovecraft father

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On Lovecraft's argument with highschool teachers

>"Things were not always entirely harmonious between Lovecraft and his teachers, however. He notes several occasions in which he had various academic disputes: one professor [...] doubted Lovecraft's assertion that there were two native races of Europe, Caucasian and Mongolian, until Lovecraft reminded him that the Lapps [i.e. Finnish people] were Mongol."

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On young Lovecraft's opinion of Jewish people

>"Hope Street is near enough to the "North End" to have a considerable Jewish attendance. It was there that I formed my ineradicable aversion to the Semitic race. The Jews were brilliant in their classes - calculatingly and schemingly brilliant - but their ideals were sordid and their manners coarse. I became rather well known as an anti-Semite before I had been at Hope Street many days."

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On young Lovecraft's fights in highschool

>"Any affront - especially any reflection on my truthfulness or honour as an 18th century gentleman - roused in me a tremendous fury, & I would always start a fight if an immediate retraction were not furnished. Being of scant physical strength, I did not fare well in these encounters; though I would never ask for their termination. I thought it disgraceful, even in defeat, not to maintain a wholly "you-go-to-hell" attitude until the victor ceased pummelling of his own accord [...] Occasionally I won fights - aided by my habit of assuming a dramatically ferocious aspect frightening to the nervous [...] the "by God, I'll kill you!" stuff."

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>>2185279
This is the truth why we will never have a movie based on Lovecraft


Lovecraft was a white loser writer who wrote for low-quality magazines.

Nothing he wrote can be compared to works by modern authors.

The only fans of this mediocre are edgy and lonely semi-illiterate boys and racist right-wingers.

> He was a beta that in the whole life only managed to have sex with a woman, for pity.

> He was an affected racist, his hatred of minorities was a shame even at that time

> He was totally devoid of talent,skill and experience, his works were limited to a few pages without a deep narrative and really complex characters, all of them imitations of himself, an incapable, boring and pathetic white male

> It was too anglo, all his work is based on the limited spectrum of the life of an anglo-saxon man.

> Even though he was only focused on this limited racist expectation of an Anglo-Saxon, he was unable to create characters with whom we can identify with ourselves. Even if you are a descendant of Anglo-Saxons, you cannot identify with his racist and poorly educated characters.

> His scientific knowledge was pathetic even for works from the early 20th century. There would be great difficulty in adapting his lack of knowledge to intelligent content for modern audiences.

> Lack of economic and political knowledge. He flirts several times with eugenic and socialist conduct. Had he lived long enough, he would probably be an admirer of Hitler. This lack of knowledge in these issues makes their work become even more outdated and less complex.

> Total lack of subtexts. He probably did not even know what that word means. He also had an extraordinarily poor vocabulary.

>>2185259 (OP)
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>>2185279
In summary, Lovecraft is a lame """"""""""artist"""""""""", his work is incapable of captivating people endowed with education, imagination and taste.


Hollywood understands this and seeks to stay away from the pitiful quality and racism that the name Lovecraft is eternally bound.


Here is an example of the """"""""legacy"""""""" of Lovecraft


https://www.change.org/p/the-world-fantasy-award-make-octavia-butler-the-wfa-statue-instead-of-lovecraft

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On young Lovecraft's fourth existential crisis

>"In 1908 Lovecraft stood at the threshold of adulthood: he was doing reasonably well at Hope High School, he had become prodigiously learned in chemistry, geography, astronomy, and meteorology [...] He seemed destined for a career as an academician of some sort [...] What derailed that future - and what ensured that Lovecraft would never lead a "normal" life - was his fourth "near-breakdown," clearly the most serious of his life. In some ways he never recovered from it. Lovecraft is very reticent about the causes or sources of what we can only regard as a full-fledged nervous breakdown in the summer of 1908. [...] the period 1908 - 13 is a virtual blank in the life of H.P. Lovecraft."

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On young Lovecraft's regretful lack of foresight after leaving highschool

>"I made the mistake in youth of not realising that literary endeavour does not always mean an income. I ought to have trained myself for some routine clerical work [...] affording a dependable stipend yet leaving my mind free enough for a certain amount of creative activity - but in the absence of immediate need I was too damned a fool to look ahead. I seemed to think that sufficient money for ordinary needs was something which everyone had as a matter of course - and if I ran short, I could always sell a storm or poem or something. Well- my calculations were inaccurate!"

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On Lovecraft as a young hermit

>"Lovecraft was a bit more than a bit troubled. In 1908, at the age of 18, he was the victim of what we might describe as a "nervous breakdown", and sank into a lethargy that was to last for a dozen years. At the age when his old classmates, impatiently crossing the bridge of childhood, threw themselves into life like a marvelous adventure into the unknown, he cloistered himself in his home, did not speak to his mother, refused to get up all day, shuffling about in his dressing gown all night."

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Maybe if he got laid every now and again he wouldnt have much a stick up his ass.

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On young Lovecraft's mother's opinion of her unemployed son

>"[Winsfield Townley] Scott rightly conjectures; "However she adored him, there may have been a subconcious criticism of Howard, so brilliant but so economically useless." No doubt her disappointment with her son's inability to finish high school, go to college, and support himself did not help this situation any."

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On Lovecraft's mother's relationship with her son

>"Lovecraft's wife, although she never knew Susie, makes a plausible claim that Susie "lavished both her love and her hate on her only child."; this comment may received confirmation from the following disturbing anecdote related by Clara Hess [...] "She was considered then to be getting rather odd. My call was pleasant enough but the house had a strange and shutup air and the atmosphere seemed weird and Mrs. Lovecraft talked continuously of her unfortunate son who was so hideous that he hid from everyone and did not like to walk upon the streets where people could gaze at him."

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On Lovecraft's appearance as a young man

>"by the age of eighteen or twenty he had perhaps reached his full height of five feet eleven inches, and had probably developed that long, prognathous jaw which he himself in later years considered a physical defect [...] As late as February 1921 [...] Lovecraft writes to his mother of a new suit that "made me appear as nearly respectable as my face permits."

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>>2185278
your just not doing it right

>>2185277
Don't talk to me or my wife's son like that ever again. Britanon always brings quality posts every time.

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>>2185267
>Around 1898 she tried to enrol him in a children's dancing class; Lovecraft "abhorred the thought" and, fresh from an initial study of Latin, responded with a line from Cicero: "Nemo fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit!" ("Scarcely any sober person dances, unless by chance he is insane".

Literally this meme

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>>2185282
Notice how the only people ITT who are shitting on Lovecraft include a non-white monkey eater and a potato nigger.

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On Lovecraft's demeanor in the years of unemployment after leaving highschool

>"Clara Hess [...] wrote: "Sometimes I would see Howard when walking up Angell Street, but he would not speak and would stare ahead with his coat collar turned up and chin down." [...] [Harold W.] Munro states: "Very much an introvert, he darted about like a sleuth, hunched over, always with books or papers clutched under his arm, peering straight ahead recognizing nobody."

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On Lovecraft's shame at being unemployed

>"Of my non-university education, I never cease to be ashamed; but I know, at least, that I could not have done differently. I busied myself at home with chemistry, literature, & the like [...] I shunned all human society, deeming myself too much of a failure in life to be seen socially by those who had known me in youth, & had foolishly expected such great things of me."

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On another poem written while unemployed during his early 20s

>"When, long ago, the Gods created Earth
>In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
>The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
>Yet were they too remote from humankind.
> To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,
>Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER."
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>>2185282
>so desperate for (you)s he comes back and posts the exact same thing as he did 50 minutes ago, this time mass replying
Holy shit man, what are you doing with your life?

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On Lovecraft's twenty-first birthday

>"He celebrated his twenty-first birthday - August 20, 1911 - by riding the electric trolley cars all day"

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On Lovecraft reading anything available to him

>"One specific type of fiction we know he read in great quantities was the early pulp magazines. [...] One [...] interesting - indeed, almost alarming - fact is that Lovecraft read the entire run of the Railroad Man's Magazine (1906 - 19), a staggering quantity of fiction and articles about railroad. This was the first specialised Munsey pulp, and the image of Lovecraft reading 150 monthly issues of this magazine is somewhat unnerving."

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On Lovecraft's impressive literary stamina

>"What is remarkable is that most of these writers [mentioned by HLP in a letter] did not even write weird fiction [...] This meant that Lovecraft read each issue - sometimes 192 pages, sometimes 240 pages - from cover to cover, month after month or even (when it changes to a weekly) week after week. This is an appalling amount of popular fiction for anyone to read, and in fact it contravened the purpose of the magazines, whereby each member of the family would read only those types of stories that were of interest to him or her. One begins to develop the impression that Lovecraft was compulsive in whatever he did"

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>>2185282
nigger

>>2185289
His writing is okay, just a bit of a sperg.

>>2185259
bump for good bread

>>2185259
bumping, keep it up OP. Always loved his cosmic horror books.

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On Lovecraft's early defence of "Weird" fiction

>"Scorning the plea [...] for more "probable" stories, Lovecraft declaims: "If, in fact, man is unable to create living beings out of inorganic matter, to hypnotise beasts of the forest to do his will, to swing from tree to tree with the apes of the African jungle, to restore to life the mummified corpses of the Pharoahs and the Incas, or to explore the atmosphere of Venus and the deserts of Mars, permit us, at least, in fancy, to witness these miracles, and to satisfy that craving for the unknown, the weird, and the impossible which exists in every active human brain."

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On Lovecraft's angry letters to a literary magazine

>"Lovecraft's tirade was not inspired merely by unwonted dominance of [romance author Fred] Jackson in the pages of Argosy [...] noting a little dryly that "There is a numerous set of people whose chief literary delight is obtained in the following of imaginary nymphs and swains through the labyrinthine paths of amorous adventure"; [...] it is a fact, maintains Lovecraft, that Jackson is simply a bad writer: "Apart from the mere choice of subject, let me venture to describe the Jacksonine type of tale as trivial, effeminate, and, in places, course. [...] Into the breasts of his characters, and appearing to dominate them to the exclusion of reason, he places the delicate passions and emotions proper to negroes or anthropoid apes.""

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On a summary of the years Lovecraft's early 20s

>"Lovecraft had no job, was only toying with chemistry and astronomy, was living with a mother who was steadily losing her mental stability, was writing random undistinguished bits of verse about his native region, and was devouring the Munsey magazines but had no thought of contributing any fiction to them or to any other market. But [Fred] Jackson's work so irritated Lovecraft that he emerged from his hermitry at least to the extent of bombarding letters to the magazines in question."

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>>2185263
>didnt know how a swing worked

>>2185259
Oh I love these threads kind anglo man have a Bumb

>>2185273
RIP Nigger-Man

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On Lovecraft becoming an amateur journalist

>"The literature produced by members [of the United Amateur Press Association] varied widely in both content and quality: poetry, essays, fiction, reviews, news items, polemics, and every other form of writing that can fit into a small compass. [...] Lovecraft realised the beneficial effects of amateurdom when he wrote in 1921: "Amateur Journalism has provided me with the very world in which I live. Of a nervous and reserved temperament, and cursed with an aspiration which far exceeds my endowments, I am a typical misfit in the larger world of endeavour, and singularly unable to derive enjoyment from ordinary miscellaneous activities. In 1914. when the kindly hand of amateurdom was first extended to me, I was as close to the state of vegetation as any animal well can be"

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On Lovecraft explaining the purpose of the United Amateur Press Association

>"The United aims to assist those whom the other forms of literary influence cannot reach. The non-university man, the dwellers in different places, the recluse, the invalid, the very young, the elderly; all these are included within our scope. [...] In no other society does wealth or previous learning count for so little [...] It is an university, stripped of every artificiality and conventionality, and thrown open to all without distinction. Here may every man shine according to his genius, and here may the small as well as the great writer known the bliss of appreciation and the glory of recognised achievement."

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>>2185265
>>""I think I am probably the only living person to whom the ancient 18th century idiom is actually a prose and poetic mother-tongue,"

is he elliotrodger posting?

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On Lovecraft's statement in The Conservative magazine

>"That the arts of literature and literary criticism will receive prime attention from The Conservative seems very probably. The increasing use among us of slovenly prose and lame metre [...] demands an active opponent, even though a lone one [...] Outside the domain of pure literature, The Conservative will ever be found an enthusiastic champion of total abstienence and prohibition; of moderate, health militarism as contrasted with dangerous and unpatriotic peace-preaching; of Pan-Saxonism, or the domination by the English and kindred races over the lesser divisions of manking; and of constitutional representative government, as opposed to the pernicious and contemptible false schemes of anarchy and socialism."

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On Lovecraft's "Americanism" and attacking Israel Zangwill's "Melting Pot"

>"The essay "Americanism [...] embodies this conception. For Lovecraft, Americanism is nothing more than "expanded Anglo-Saxonism": "It is the spirit of England, transplanted to a soil of vast extent and diversity [...] It is the expression of the world's highest race under the most favourable social, political, and geographical conditions. [...] Most dangerous and fallacious of the several misconceptions of Americanism is that of the so-called "melting-pot" of races and traditions. It is true that this country has received a vast influx of non-English immigrants who come hither to enjoy without hardship the liberties which our British ancestors carved out in toil and bloodshed. [...] But from this it does not follow that a mixture of really alien blood or ideas has accomplished or can accomplish anything but harm [..] Immigration cannot, perhaps, be cut off altogether, but it should be understood that aliens who choose America as their residence must accept the prevailing language and culture as their own; and neither try to modify our institutions, nor to keep alive their own in our midst."

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Bowden on H.P. Lovecraft - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQ7A4rWM8

>>2185262
Kafka

>>2185305
That's aFinal Fantasy character silly.

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OP here. Two things:
1. Apologies if some quotations seem too long; some need full context.
2. I am narrating this chronologically, and will make sure to point out when HPL reaches his 30s, 40s etc.

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On Lovecraft's counter-attack against a Jewish critics of The Conservative magazine

>"In "Concerning the Conservative" Isaacson, keenly [points] out that "There comes a musty smell as of old books with the reader of the Conservative," [...] What Lovecraft did do was write a magnificent poem, "The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad," around September 1915 [...]
>'Whilst the brave Semite loud of freedom cants.
>Against this freedom he, forgetful, rants:
>Eternal licence for himself he pleads,
>Yet seeks restraint for his opponents' deeds;
>With the same force that at oppression rails,
>He'd bar The Jeffersonian from the mails!'"

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On Lovecraft's reaction to the outbreak of the First World War

>"Lovecraft's immediate reaction to the war, however, was a curious one. He did not care what the causes of the war were, or who was to blame; his prime concern was in stopping what he saw was a suicidal racial civil war between the two sides of "Anglo-Saxondom." [...] "High above such national crimes as the Serbian plots against Austria or the German disregard of Belgian neutrality, high above such sad matters as the destruction of innocence lives and property, looms the supremest of all crimes, an offence not only against conventional morality but against Nature itself; the violation of race. In the unnatural racial alignment of the various warring powers we behold a defiance of anthropological principles that cannot but bode ill for the future of the world."

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>>2185276
This guys was patrician as fuck

>>2185279
lmao i love lovecraft.

i spent the first 18 years of my life in Rhode Island and no schools, public or private, teach about HP Lovecraft just because he said bad things about da joos

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On Lovecraft attempting to join the National Guard

>"impressed by my entire uselessness in the world, I resolved to attempt enlistment despite my almost invalid condition. [...] As you may have deduced, I embarked upon this desperate venture without informing my mother [...] In fact, my mother was almost prostrated with the news, since she knew that only by rare chance could a weakling like myself survive the rigorous routine of camp life. [...] My mother has threatened to go to any lengths, legal or otherwise, if I do not reveal all the ills which unfit me for the army. [...] Her activities soon brought my military career to a close [...] my final status is that of a man "Rejected for physical disability.""

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On Lovecraft's wartime allegiance

>"I shall not stoop to explain that I am an invalid who would certainly be fighting under the Union Jack if able."

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On Lovecraft's dejection at failing to join the war effort

>""I am feeling desolate and lonely indeed as a civilian. Practically all of my personal acquaintances are now in some branch of the service [...] I would try to enter, were it not for the almost frantic attitude of my mother; who makes me promise every time I leave the house that I will not make another attempt at enlistment!" [...] Here was one more indicating, for Lovecraft, of being left behind in life; having failed to finish high school and enter college, he had seen his boyhood friends go on to gain good jobs in journalism, trade, and law enforcement. Now he saw them go off to war while he remained behind to write for the amateur press."

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Is there a pastebin or something? Good info btw.

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On Lovecraft's depression during his mid-20s

>"Adulthood is hell. Faced with a position this stubborn, the "moralists" of our time grumble in a vaguely disapproving manner, waiting for the moment to float their obscene subtexts. Maybe Lovecraft really couldn't become an adult; but what is certain is that he did not want to. And considering the values which rule the adult world, it's difficult to argue the case. The reality principle, the pleasure principle, competition, permanent challenge, sex and work...nothing to sing Hallelujah about. Lovecraft knows there's nothing to this world. And he plays the role of the loser every time. In theory as in practice. He has lost his childhood, he has equally lost his faith. The world disgusts him, and he sees no reason to suppose that things could be presented otherwise, by 'looking on the bright side'. [...] Very few will have been at this point of saturation, penetrated right to the marrow by the absolute void of every human aspiration.The universe is merely a chance arrangement of elementary particles. A transitory image in the midst of chaos. [...] Lovecraft is well aware of the depressing nature of these conclusions. As he wrote in 1918, "all rationalism tends to minimize the value and importance of life, and to diminish the total quantity of human happiness. In some cases the truth could cause suicide, or at least precipitate a near-suicidal depression.""

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>>2185290
>>"When, long ago, the Gods created Earth
>>In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
>>The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
>>Yet were they too remote from humankind.
>> To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,
>>Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>>Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER."

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Thanks, love these threads, the Goebbels one was the best thread I've ever read on /pol/

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On Lovecraft's overall opinion of the First World War

>"As to the general situation, it seems very discouraging just now. It may take a second war to adjust things properly."

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On Lovecraft's support for alcohol Prohibition

>""The practical difficult in enforcing Prohibition is admittedly great, but no man of virtue can do otherwise than work towards the downfall of Rum. [...] even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain, the greater part of the squalor I saw was due. Many of these vermin were obviously not foreigners - I counted at least five American countenances in which a certain vanished decency half showed through the red whiskey bloating." [...] One had to wonder why Lovecraft became so obsessed with temperance. He himself was fond of declaring that "I have never tasted intoxicating liquor, and never intend to."

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On Lovecraft's hostility to smoking

>"Lovecraft's hostility to smoking nearly equalled his disapprobation of drinking. [...] Lovecraft admits [...] "I cannot see yet what anyone finds attractive about the habit of imitating a smokestack!"

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On Lovecraft's hostility to sexual intercourse

>"Eroticism belongs to a lower order of instincts, and is an animal rather than nobly human quality [...] The primal savage or ape merely looks about his native forest to find a mate; the exalted Aryan should lift his eyes to the worlds of space and consider his relation to the infinity!! [...] About romance and affection I never have felt the slightest interest [...] And in truth, is this not the natural attitude of an analytical mind? What is a beauteous nymph? Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, a dash or two of phosphorous and other elements - all to decay soon. But what is the cosmos? What is the secret of time, space, and the things that lie beyond time and space?"

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OP very good thread. Where are you getting all this info? It sounds like from I Am Providence.

I should mention that I have a youtube channel and I make the occasional video regarding Lovecraft and his mythos. Its called Arkham Reporter. It might interest some of you.

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>>2185316
OP here. Joshi's book is one main source here, yes. I avoid the parts where he guesses or includes conjecture etc.

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On Lovecraft's hostility to dogs and appreciation of cats

>"In essence, Lovecraft's argument is that the cat is the pet of the artists and thinker, while the dog is the pet of the stolid bourgeoisie. "The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind." This leads inevitably to a class distinction that is neatly summed up in the compact utterance: "The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.""

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On Lovecraft's new hobby

>"Lovecraft [...] was not actually doing much during this period aside from writing; but he had discovered one entertaining form of relaxation - moviegoing. [...] Lovecraft reports that the first cinema shows in Providence were in March 1906; and, even though he "knew too much of literature & drama not to recognize the utter & unrelieved hokum of the moving picture," he attended them anyway [...] One develops the idea that watching films may have occupied some, perhaps much, of the "blank" years of 1908 - 1913, as a letter of 1915 suggests: "As you may surmise, I am a devotee of the motion picture, since I can attend shows at any time, whereas my ill health seldom permits me to make definite engagements"

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On Lovecraft losing interest in motion pictures

>"Save for a few Triangle, Pramount & Vitagraoh pictures, everything I have seen is absolute trash [...] I have yet to see a serial film worth the time wasted in looking at it - or dozing over it. The technique could be surpassed by most ten year old children." [...] With rare exceptions, Lovecraft did not care for the surprising number of films he saw in the course of his life."

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>>2185259
MODS

>>2185318
feck off

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>>2185259
Wyatt is that you?

>>2185318
imagine being the dumbest guy in Swaziland

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>>2185317
>"In essence, Lovecraft's argument is that the cat is the pet of the artists and thinker, while the dog is the pet of the stolid bourgeoisie. "The dog appeals to cheap and facile emotions; the cat to the deepest founts of imagination and cosmic perception in the human mind." This leads inevitably to a class distinction that is neatly summed up in the compact utterance: "The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.""
/ourguy/

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On Lovecraft's changing perspective on writing

>"It is one of Lovecraft's great virtues that he never buckled down to hackwork even in the face of ever-increasing poverty; as he wrote poignantly in 1924, "Writing after all is the essence of whatever is left in my life, and if the ability or opportunity for that goes, I have no further reason for - or mind to endure - the joke of existence."

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On Lovecraft as a literary gentleman

>"He wholeheartedly believed it unsuitable to pursue literature as a profession. As he wrote: "a gentleman doesn't try to become famous, but leaves that to the little parvenu egoists". It's obviously difficult to appreciate the sincerity of this declaration; it might appear to us to be the result of a formidable mass of inhibitions, but it must equally be considered as the strict application of an obsolete code of behaviour, to which Lovecraft adhered with all his might. He always wanted to be seen as a provincial gentleman, studying literature as one of the fine arts, for his own pleasure and that of a few friends, without care for public tastes, fashionable themes, or anything of that sort. Such a person has no place in our societies; he knew this, but he always refused to take account of it. And, ultimately, all that distinguished him from a true 'country gentleman' was that he possessed nothing; but even so, he didn't want to take account of it"

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On Lovecraft's own distinctive Cosmic perspective

>""I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them. Without interest there can be no art. Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos - to the unknown - which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background."

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>>2185315
>"Eroticism belongs to a lower order of instincts, and is an animal rather than nobly human quality [...] The primal savage or ape merely looks about his native forest to find a mate; the exalted Aryan should lift his eyes to the worlds of space and consider his relation to the infinity!! [...] About romance and affection I never have felt the slightest interest [...] And in truth, is this not the natural attitude of an analytical mind? What is a beauteous nymph? Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, a dash or two of phosphorous and other elements - all to decay soon. But what is the cosmos? What is the secret of time, space, and the things that lie beyond time and space?"


>>>>>r9k

>>2185322
cats are for fags

It's a shame that these high IQ individuals didn't go out and do greater things in the world, like lead our governments or contribute to science/philosophy etc. I mean sure Lovecraft wrote interesting stories, but I would have rather seen this man live a few extra years and lead our country through WWII: the breaking point for the West.

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On Lovecraft's mother encouraging her son to find employment

>"he was slowly - probably through his mother's urging - making tentative forays at professional employment. His scorn of commercial writing prevented him from submitting his work to paying magazines [...] it means that Lovecraft [...] commenced what would become his only true renumerative occupation: revising and ghostwriting."

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On Lovecraft and his mother's lifestyle in his mid-to-late twenties

>"Lovecraft himself [...] continued to live alone with his mother at 598 Angell Street. The nature of their relations for much of the period 1904 - 19 is a mystery. [..] His sporadic efforts to earn an income by revision, and his whimsical thoughts of turning into a hack writer, give the impression that he was not very serious about supporting himself; but we shall see that Susie was very concerned about this matter [...] All in all, relations between Lovecraft and Susie could not have been very wholesome. Lovecraft was still doing almost no travelling outside the city, and the lack of a regular job must have kept him at home nearly all day, week after week. "

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On Lovecraft considering becoming a teacher

>"in early 1920 Lovecraft mused about the following: 'I have been wondering lately if I could ever manage, under the pressure of poverty, to accept a position in an evening school. A day school, of course, would be out of the question - for I can rarely keep up that long for two successive days. If fairly frequent absences could be pardoned. I might manage to keep up with the evening hours - but fancy my trying to hold in check a roomful of incipient gangsters! It seems as though every avenue of remunerative activity is closed to a total nervous wreck!' [...] How he could have imagined that any night school would hire a high-school dropout who might be subject to "fairly frequent absences" is beyond fathoming."

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>>2185259

Thank you once again for these threads OP. And I'm a big fan of Lovecraft so this is a great thread.

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>>2185317
>"The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman."
FUCKING DROPPED

>>2185318
Fuck off, Lovecraft the Aryan seer is definitely politics

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On the decline of Lovecraft's mother's health

>"In the winter of 1918 - 19 she finally cracked under the strain of financial worries. [...] On March 13, Susie, "showing no signs of recovery," was admitted to Butler Hospital, where her husband had died more than twenty years before and where she herself would remain until her death two years later. [...] She wept frequently under emotional strains. In common lingo, she was a woman who had gone to pieces. When interviewed, she stressed her economic worries, and she spoke [...] of all she had done for "a poet of the highest order"; that is, of course, her son."

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On the death of Lovecraft's mother

>"[Lovecraft] used to visit his mother at the hospital, but he never entered the building: always she met him on the grounds, usually at 'the grotto,' and they would stroll together through the Butler woods about the river. To other patients she spoke constantly and pridefully of her son, but they never saw him."

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On Lovecraft's reaction to his mother's death

>"I lack the will and energy to do anything heavier. The death of my mother [...] gave me an extreme nervous shock [...] I am, of course, supremely unemotional; and do not weep or indulge in any of the lugubrious demonstrations of the vulgar - but the psychological effect of so vast and unexpected a disaster is none the less considerable [...] For two years she had wished for little else [than death] - just as I myself wish for oblivion. [...] For my part, I do not think I shall wait for a natural death; since there is no longer any particular reason why I should exist. During my mother's life-time I was aware that voluntary euthanasia on my part would cause her distress, but it is now possible for me to regulate the term of my existence with the assurance that my end would cause no more than a passing annoyance. [...] My mother was, in all probability, the only person who thoroughly understood me"

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>>2185314
4pleb us, if you would.

I have the complete anthology of all his works, carefully annotated on the side for context and clarifications. Well worth the 50 bucks I shelled out for it. Also was Lovecraft a Freemason? His tomb has a masonic obelisk.

>>2185329

He's almost sort of right, but so insulated from reality he misses it. Cats are an incarnation of raw predatory spirit, dogs can't be because they'd eat your children.

My cat is currently cleaning my German Shepherd's ears. Pretty adorable tbqh.

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On Lovecraft's "perfected" cynicism

>"In "A Confession of Unfaith" Lovecraft suggests that the immediate postwar period let to the solidifications of his philosophical thought: "The Peace Conference, Friedrich Nietzsche, Samuel Butler (the modern), H. L. Mencken, and other influences have perfected my cynicism; a quality which grows more intense as the advent of middle life removes the blind prejudice whereby youth clings to the vapid 'all's right with the world' hallucination from the sheer force of desire to have it so. [...] One should come to realise that all life is merely a comedy of vain desire, wherein those who strive are the clowns, and those who calmly and dispassionately watch are the fortunate ones who can laugh at the acts of the strivers. The utter emptiness of all recognised goals of human endeavour is to the detached spectator deliciously apparent - the tomb yawns and grins so ironically!"

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On the arrival of Sonia Green in the life of Howard Lovecraft

>"It is worth pausing to ponder the sources for Lovecraft's attraction to Sonia. It seems facile to say that he was looking for a mother replacement; and yet, the emergence of Sonia into his life a mere six weeks after his mother's death is certainly a coincidence worth noting.

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On Jewess Sonia Green's romantic pursuit of Lovecraft

>"Lovecraft heard from Sonia as early as mid- to late July of 1912, by which time she had already read some of Lovecraft's stories [...] It was Sonia who took things into her own hands. She visited Lovecraft in Providence on September 4 -5, staying at the Crown Hotel."

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>>2185332
I'd love to but I can't find it

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Anon please. We're gonna topple your shit god from his pedestal.
When the history of fiction is written, his work will only be a footnote.

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>>2185297
>"Apart from the mere choice of subject, let me venture to describe the Jacksonine type of tale as trivial, effeminate, and, in places, course. [...] Into the breasts of his characters, and appearing to dominate them to the exclusion of reason, he places the delicate passions and emotions proper to negroes or anthropoid apes.""
what did he mean by this?

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On Lovecraft's first impression of New York

>"My gawd - what a filthy dump! I thought Providence had slums, and antique Bostonium as well; but damn me if I ever saw anything like the sprawling sty-atmosphere of N.Y.'s lower East Side. We walked - at my suggestion - in the middle of the street, for contact with the heterogeneous sidewalk denizens, spilled out of their bulging brick kennels as if by a spawning beyond the capacity of the places, was not by any means sought. [...] these swine have instinctive swarming movements, no doubt, which no ordinary biologist can fathom. Gawd knows what they are [...] a bastard mess of stewing mongrel flesh without intellect, repellent to eye, nose, and imagination - would to heaven a kindly gust of cyanogen could asphyxiate the whole gigantic abortion, end the misery, and clean out the place."

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On Sonia's reaction to Lovecraft helping to edit and refine her short story

>"His continued enthusiasm the next day was so genuine and sincere that in appreciation I surprised and shocked him right then and there by kissing him. He was so flustered that he blushed, then he turned pale. When I chaffed him about it he said he had not been kissed since he was a very small child and that he was never kissed by any woman [...] and that he would probably never be kissed again. (But I fooled him)."

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On Sonia and Lovecraft's relationship

>"Sonia seems to have understood Lovecraft very well, his frigidity, his inhibition, his denial and his disgust for life. As for him, who considered himself an old man at thirty, one is still surprised that he could envisage union with this dynamic, vivacious creature. A divorced jewess, what’s more; which, for a conservative antisemite like him would seem to constitute an insurmountable obstacle. [...] But it is perhaps the most unlikely explanation that seems the best: Lovecraft really seems to have, in a certain manner, loved Sonia, as Sonia loved him."

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>>2185262
Huxley and Orwell

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Obligatory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7qQ7A4rWM8

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On Lovecraft marrying Sonia Green

>"Sonia writes: "I have nothing in life to attract me to Life and if I can help the good and beautiful soul of Howard Lovecraft find itself financially as it has found itself spiritually, morally and mentally, my efforts shall not have been in vain." [...] On March 3, at St Paul's Chapel at Broadway and Vesey Streets in lower Manhattan, H.P. Lovecraft had married Sonia Haft Greene."

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On a summary of Lovecraft's marriage

>"Here was a man with an unusually low sex rive, with a deep-seated love of his native region, with severe prejudice against racial minorities, suddenly deciding to marry a woman who, although several years older than he, clearly wished both a physical as well as intellectual union, and deciding to uproot himself from his place of birth to move into a bustling, cosmopolitan, racially heterogenous megalopolis without a job and, it appears, entirely content to be supported by his wife until such time as he got one."

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On Lovecraft's revised notion of love

>""shunning a world which exhausted and disgusted me, and having no goal but a phial of cyanide when my money should give out. I had formerly meant to follow the later course, and was fully prepared to seek oblivion whenever cash should fail or sheer ennui grow too much for me; when suddenly, nearly three years ago, our benevolent angel S. H. G. stepped into my circle of consciousness and began to combat that idea with the opposite one of effort and the enjoyment of life through the rewards which effort will bring." [...] He does not say: "I love Sonia and Sonia loves me"; says that he and she need each other for "mental contentment and artistic and philosophical enjoyment.""

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>>2185337

>those buttmad leftist

These same people are Harry Potter fanboys. Into le trash it goes.

>>2185326
He wouldn't do it for what I am reading here, I don't think he would care much and perhaps he would be hate since the populus wouldn't understand. They are inteligent but they arent mary sues ready for everything I think.

>>2185259
Allow me to shill my youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ArkhamReporter

>>2185317
> cats better then dogs
> I will prove it. How ?
> Listen to cosmic explanation of it!

What the fuck. Love his works (mostly the later stuff) but this Is autism the world may never see again. And I own 2 cats.

Jesus Christ stick to books Lovecraft

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On Lovecraft's reaction to other races in New York

>"Soon after we were married he told me that whenever we have company he would appreciate it if there were 'Aryans' in the majority. [...] whenever he would meet crowds of people - in the subway, or, at the noon hour, on the sidewalks in Broadway, or crowds, wherever he happened to find them, and these were usually the workers of minority races - he would become livid with anger and rage. [...] It was then that he said: "It is more important to know what to hate than it is to know what to love.""

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On Lovecraft's sexual relations with his wife

>"We learn [...] that: first, he was a virgin at the time he married; second, prior to his marriage he had read several books on sex; and third, he never initiated sexual relations, but would respond when Sonia did so. [...] Sonia herself has only two comments on the matter. 'As a married man he was an adequately excellent lover, but refused to show his feelings in the presence of others. [...] One way of expression of H.P.'s sentiment was to wrap his "pinkey" finger around mine and say "Umph!""

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On Lovecraft's attempts to find a job to provide for himself and his wife

>"Lovecraft was forced to look much more vigorously for a job - any job - than before. Now [...] begins the futile [...] hunting through the classified ads every Sunday in the New York Times for any position that might conceivably be available; but Lovecraft came face to face with a realisation as true then as now: "Positions of every kind seem virtually unattainable to persons without experience" [...] What he says is the job that "came nearest to materialisation" was a salesman's position with the Creditors' National Clearing House [...] he attended a salesmen's meeting in Newark to learn the ropes [...] but did not generate a single sale [...] the head of the Newark branch, William J. Bristol, [...] quickly took him aside."

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>>2185264
t. Salty monkey

>I was with him through the crippling betamax autism but cats hurrr dropped wtf triggered

Why are people on here so fucking fickle? Just switching back and forth between total approval and total dismissal like a light going on and off

>>2185337
the oven is calling

>>2185337
>defranchised
>not disenfranchised

>>2185281
uh-huh. And what have YOU done to contribute to the world of literature or the world in general? All this shit talk and yet the only thing you'll ever amount to is being a stain on God's earth. How does it feel knowing Lovecraft's legacy will survive long after you're nothing but worthless dust.

Top 5 Best Lovecraft stories IMO:

1. The Shadow Out of Time
2. The Call of Cthulhu
3. The Color Out of Space
4. Beyond the Wall of Sleep
5. Polaris

Honorable mention to The Street because while not perfect it's essentially "/pol/: the story."

Rate my taste.

>>2185307
haha fuck jews

>>2185351
Nuh-uh. Read up on AAVE and educate yourself, sugar.

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On Lovecraft's feelings towards his wife and her efforts to help him while he is unemployed

>"I have never seen a more admirable attitude, full of disinterested consideration and solicitude; each financial difficulty that I face is accepted and excused as soon as it becomes obvious that it is inevitable [...] A devotion capable of accepting without a murmur this combination of incompetence and egoism, so contrary as it might be to everything one could hope for at first, is assuredly a phenomenon so rare, so close to saintliness in its historical sense, that it is enough to have the least sense of artistic proportion to respond with the warmest reciprocal esteem, with admiration and with affection."

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On Lovecraft's failure to find a job

>"This task would prove absolutely impossible. He would try, though, responding to hundreds of job advertisements, writing to employers speculatively...Total failure. Certainly, he had no idea of the realities indicated by words like dynamism, competitivity, commercial sense, efficiency... But all the same, in an economy which wasn't even in crisis at the time, it would surely be possible for him to find some junior position... But no. Nothing whatsoever. There was no conceivable place, in the American economy of his epoch, for an individual like Lovecraft. There is here a sort of mystery; and he himself, fully aware of his maladaption and shortcomings, doesn't wholly understand it."

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On Lovecraft's cold dinners while Sonia worked in another city

>"In October Lovecraft was forced to buy an oil heater for the winter, since the head provided by [landlord] Mrs Burns [...] was quite insufficient. [...] Lovecraft could now indulge in the high luxury of "the preparation of hot dinners. No more cold beans & spaghetti for me". Does this mean that, for the first nine and a half months of the year, Lovecraft was eating cold meals, mostly out of cans? [...] this seems to be a dismal probability"

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>>2185259

I love that your interest in people is always very similar to mine

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Don't forget to mention his 7 formula one championships.

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On Lovecraft's New York apartment being burgled

>"The room at 169 Clinton Street really was rather dismal - in a run-down neighbourhood, with a dubious clientele, and infested with mice. [...] on the morning of Sunday, May 24, when, while Lovecraft was sleeping on the couch after an all-night writing session, his dressing alcove was broken into from the connecting apartment and he was robbed of nearly all his suits"

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On the development of Lovecraft's racist views in New York

>"We see here manifested the first traces of a racism that afterwards nourished the work of HPL. It presented itself from the start in a banal enough form: unemployed, menaced by poverty, Lovecraft could stand less and less an aggressive and hard urban environment. In addition he feels a certain aggrievement in considering that immigrants of every provenance are swallowed up without difficulty in the bustling melting-pot which is the America of the 20s, whereas he himself, despite his pure anglo-saxon heritage, is permanently in search of employment. [...] His hatred for the "stinking, amorphous hybridity" of this modern Babel, for the "giant strangers, ill-born and deformed, who gabble and shout vulgarly, destitute of dreams, within its confines" did not cease, during the course of 1925 , to exasperate him to the point of delirium. Once might even say that one of the fundamental figures of his work -0 the idea of a titanic and grandiose city, in the fundaments of which swarm repugnant creatures of nightmare - was inspired directly by his experience of New York."

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On Lovecraft's visit to New York's Pelham Bay Park

>""My Pete in Pegana, but what crowds! And that is not the worst... for upon my most solemn oath, I'll be shot if three out of every four persons - nay, full nine out of every ten - weren't flabby, pungent, grinning, chattering niggers!"

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>>2185359
So he started to become racist after a nigger jacked his shit up?

The quickest redpill is reality, as usual.

>>2185347

>One way of expression of H.P.'s sentiment was to wrap his "pinkey" finger around mine and say "Umph!""

What did he mean by this?

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On Lovecraft's desire to deport all "mongoloids"

>"The more prolonged is Lovecraft's enforced sojourn in New York, the more his repulsion and terror grows until it attains alarming proportions. As he wrote to Belknap Long, "one cannot speak calmly about the mongoloid problem of New York". Later on in the letter, he declares: "I hope the end will be warfare -- but not till such a time as our own minds are fully freed of humanitarian hindrances of the Syrian superstition imposed upon us by Constantinus. Then let us show our physical power as men and Aryans, and conduct a scientific wholesale deportation from which there will be neither flinching nor retreating."

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On Lovecraft's dislike of Jews

>"A long letter in early January [1926] goes on at length about the fundamental inassimability of Jews in American life, maintaining that "vast harm is done by those idealists who encourage belief in a coalescence which never can be. [...] he went on to note that "On our side there is a shuddering physical repugnance to most Semitic types."

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On Lovecraft and the Jewish domination of publishing

>"As for New York - there is no question but that its overwhelming Semitism has totally removed it from the American stream. Regarding its influence on literary & dramatic expression - it is not so much that the country is flooded directly with Jewish authors, as that Jewish publishers determine just which of our Aryan writers shall achieve print & position. [...] Taste is insidiously moulded along non-Aryan lines - that [...] it is a special, rootless literature which does not represent us."

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On Lovecraft and the Jewish domination in media

>"not a paper in New York dares to call its soul its own in dealing with the Jews [...] I do think that something ought to be done to free American expression from the control of any element which seeks to curtail it, distort it, or remodel it in any direction other than its natural course."

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>>2185259
You glorious faggot, OP. Threads like these make life worthwhile. Please do Robert E. Howard next.

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>>2185355
Sorry, I forgot about Black English.

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On Lovecraft's feelings towards black people and his thoughts on segregation

>As he wrote in a letter, "Either stow 'em out of sight or kill 'em off" ; and he came progressively to consider the former solution as preferable, particularly in the wake of some time spent in the South, at the home of writer Robert Barlow, where he observed with wonder that the maintenance of a strict racial segregation could allow a white, educated American to feel at ease in the middle of a population with a high density of blacks. Naturally, he states precisely to his aunt, "they can't let niggers use the beach as a Southern resort - can you imagine sensitive persons bathing near a pack of greasy chimpanzees?"

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On Puritanism

>"as for Puritan inhibitions - I admire them more every day. They are attempts to make of life a work of art - to fashion a pattern of beauty in the hog-wallow that is animal existence - and they spring out of that divine hatred for life which marks the deepest and most sensitive soul [...] An intellectual Puritan is a fool [...] but a Puritan in the conduct of life is the only kind of man one may honestly respect. I have no respect or reverence whatever for any person who does not live abstemiously and purely"

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On Lovecraft's view of aristocracy and democracy

>"I believe in an aristocracy, because i deem it the only agency for the creation of those refinements which make life endurable for the human animal of high organisation [...] Aristocracy alone is capable of creating thoughts and objects of value. Everyone, I fancy, will admit that such a state must precede democracy or ochlocracy in order to build the original culture. Fewer are willing to admit the cognate truth that democracies and ochlocracies merely subsist parasitically on the aristocracies they overthrow, gradually using up the aesthetic and intellectual resources which autocracy bequeathed them and which they never could have created for themselves."

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I didn't realise quite how much he was /ourguy/. I used to play a RPG called Call of Cthulhu a lot as a teenager, so Lovecraft has always been part of my inner life.

>>2185276
>But ere long he uncovered qualities which did not appeal to me, and I was forced to abandon him to his plebeian fate."
>plebeian fate
I must remember this phrase.

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>>2185326
Having good intellect like that just pushes you closer to nihilism & permanent depression.

Just like it said;you don't find interest or happiness in anything,the only things you really feel are anger,sadness,yearning,shame & loathing for yourself or the rest of the world.

Comfort can only be found in the things that aren't real.

Your life is pretty much gg as soon as you attain existential awareness.

>>2185282
>>2185281
Back in reality he is a household name. Keep crying fag.

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On Lovecraft's fondness for Puritanism and his hatred for life

>"Dressed in rigid and somewhat mean costumes, habitually refraining from expressing their emotions and desires, the protestant puritans of New England may occasionally lose sight of their animal origins. Hence Lovecraft accepts their company, even if only in moderate doses. Their insignificance itself reassures him. But, in the presence of "blacks" he is in the grip of an uncontrollable nervous reaction. Their vitality, their apparent absence of complexes and inhibitions terrifies and disgusts him. They dance in the street, they listen to rhythmic music...They speak loudly. They laugh in public. Life seems to amuse them; which is disquieting. Because life is no good"

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On Lovecraft's opinion of black people

>"To the end of his life Lovecraft retained a a belief in the biological (as opposed to the cultural) inferiority of blacks, and maintained that a strict colour line must be enforced in order to prevent miscegenation. "

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On Lovecraft's fear of racial contamination

>"the natural and just sentiment which keeps the African black from contaminating the Caucasian population of the United States. The negro is fundamentally the biological inferior of all White and even Mongolian races, and the Northern people must occasionally be reminded of the danger which they incur in admitting him too freely to the privileges of society and government."

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On Lovecraft's opinion of Native Americans

>"Whilst the driving back of the aborigines has indeed been ruthless and high-handed, it seems the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon to sweep inferior races from his path wherever he goes. There are few who love the Indian so deeply that they would wish this continent restored to its original condition, peopled by savage nomads instead of civilized colonists."

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Would you fuck an elder god?

These threads are always great. I truly appreciate it, OP.

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On the height of Lovecraft's racist feelings

>"It is no longer a matter of the well-bred racism of the WASP; this is brutal hatred, that of the trapped animal made to share its cage with beasts of a different, and formidable, species. And yet, ultimately, his hypocrisy and his good education bore up; as he wrote to his aunt: "It does not behove individuals of our class to make ourselves conspicuous by our speech or inconsiderate actions." After the example of his neighbours, whenever he comes across representatives of other races, Lovecraft grits his teeth, blanches slightly, but keeps his cool. His exasperation is given free rein only in his letters - before being released in his stories. It transforms little by little into a phobia. His vision, nourished by hatred, is elevated to naked paranoia, and higher still, to absolute distraction, foreshadowing the verbal derangements of the "major works""

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On Lovecraft's longing to return to Providence

>"It so happens that I am unable to take pleasure or interest in anything but a mental re-creation of other & better days - for in sooth, I see no possibility of every encountering a really congenial milieu or living among civilised people with old Yankee historic memories again - so in order to avoid the madness which leads to violence & suicide I must cling to the few shreds of old days & old ways which are left to e. [...] they are all that make it possible for me to open my eyes in the morning or look forward to another day of consciousness without screaming in sheer desperation & pounding the walls & floor in a frenzied clamour to bewaked up out of the nightmare of "reality" & my own room in Providence."

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>>2185365
>that divine hatred for life which marks the deepest and most sensitive soul
/pol/ motto

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On Lovecraft deciding to return to Providence

>"I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be [...] To all intents & purposes I am more naturally isolated from mankind than Nathaniel Hawthorne himself, who dwelt alone in the midst of crowds [...] I am always an outside - to all scenes & all people - but outsiders have their sentimental preferences in visual environment. I will be dogmatic only to the extent of saying that it is New England I must have - in some form or other. Providence is part of me - I am Providence.""

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On the end of Lovecraft and Sonia's marriage

>"In all honesty, it is highly likely that he really wished the marriage to end at this point - or, at the very least, that he was perfectly content to see it continue only by correspondence, as indeed it id for the next several years. All he wanted was to come home; Sonia could shift for herself."

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On Lovecraft's thoughts on the end of his marriage

>"Although he later maintained the charade that the collapse of the marriage was "98% financial," he plainly admitted that a fundamental difference in character caused the breakup [...] "With a wife of the same temperament as my mother and aunts, I would probably have been able to reconstruct a type of domestic life not unlike that of Angell St. days, even though I would have had a different status in the household hierarchy. [...] I've no fault to find with the institution, but think the chances of success for a strongly individualised, opinionated, and imaginative person are damn slender."

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On Sonia's remarks about the end of her marriage

>""If the truth be known, it was this attitude towards minorities and his desire to escape them that promoted him back to Providence [...] I did not leave him on account of non-providence, but chiefly on account of his harping hatred of J--s. This and this alone was the rel reason."

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>>2185362
>>2185365
Yeah fuck non-whites!

>>2185259
>In this thread I will narrate the life of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
kek, it's the kacynzski guy again

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On Lovecraft's advice on writing during his mid-30s

>""This, then, is the writer's fivefold problem: 1. To get the facts of life. 2. To think straight and tell the truth. 3. To cut out maudlin and extravagent emotion. 4. To cultivate an ear for strong, direct, harmonious, simple, and graphic language. 5. To write what one really sees and feels."

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On Lovecraft's influences in his mid-30s

>"Favorite authors - in most intimate personal sense - Poe, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, Algernon Blackwood"

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On Lovecraft rejecting practical nihilism

>"The matters crops up in a discussion with Morton, who appears to have questioned why Lovecraft was so passionately concerned about the preservation of Western civilization when he believed in a purposeless cosmos: "It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which gave us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything by itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something. In other words, we are either Englishmen or nothing whatever."

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On Lovecraft's defence of tradition

>"Amidst the variability there is only one anchor of fixity which we can seize upon as the working pseudo-standard of "values" which we need in order to feel settled & contended - & that anchor is tradition, the potent emotional legacy bequeathed to us by the massed experience of ancestors, individual or national or biological or cultural. Tradition means nothing cosmically, but it means everything locally & pragmatically because we have nothing else to shield us from a devastating sense of "lostness" in endless time & space."

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>>2185337
>we toppled your little shit god from his pedestal
>typing angry tweets

How will Lovecraft ever recover

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>>2185375
>I divorced cause he's rayciss

Fucking jews

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On Lovecraft's support of Adolf Hitler

>"[Hitler's] vision is of course romantic & immature, & coloured with a fact-ignoring emotionalism [...] There surely is an actual Hitler peril - yet that cannot blind us to the honest rightness of the man's basic urge [...] I repeat that there is a great & pressing need behind every one of the major plans of Hitlerism - racial-cultural continuity, conservative cultural ideals, & an escape from the absurdities of the Versailles. The crazy thing is not what Adolf wants, but the way he sees it & starts to get it. I know he's a clown, but by God, I like the boy!"

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On Lovecraft's prediction for the future of America

>""The social-political future of the United States is one of domination by vast ecconomic interests devoted to the ideals of material gain, aimless activity, & physical comfort - interests controlled by shrewd, insensitive, & not often well-bred leaders recruited from the standardised herd through a competition of hard wit & practical craftiness - a struggle for a place & power which will eliminate the truth & the beautiful as goals, & substitute the strong, the huge, & the mechanically effective."

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>>2185377
Has there been one of these about Ted? I'd love a link to that.

>>2185370
>"To the end of his life Lovecraft retained a a belief in the biological (as opposed to the cultural) inferiority of blacks, and maintained that a strict colour line must be enforced in order to prevent miscegenation. "
Even back then some people already knew the truth.

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On the notion of Lovecraft living in modern times

>"Today more than ever, Lovecraft would be a misfit and a recluse. Born in 1890, he appeared already to his contemporaries, in his younger years, an out-of-date reactionary. One can easily guess what he would have thought of today's society. After his death, it hasn't stopped evolving in directions that would have made him detest it more than ever. Mechanisation and modernization have ineluctably destroyed the way of life to which he was attached with every fibre of his being [...] The ideas of liberty and democracy, which he abhorred, have spread over the planet. The idea of progress has become an uncontested credo, almost unconscious, which can only bristle at a man who declares: "What we detest, is simply change in and of itself". Liberal capitalism has exerted its dominance over consciousness; marching in time with it have been commercialism, advertising, the absurd grinning cult of economic efficiency, the exclusive and immoderate appetite for material riches. Even worse, liberation has reached from the economic to the sexual domain. All sentimental fictions have been shattered into a thousand pieces. Purity, chastity, fidelity, decency, have become ridiculous stigmata. The value of a human being is measured today by his economic efficiency and his erotic potency: so, exactly the two things that Lovecraft hated the most strongly."

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>>2185378
>"It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which gave us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything by itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something. In other words, we are either Englishmen or nothing whatever."

MY GOD I THINK HE'S GOT IT

>>2185370
>Whilst the driving back of the aborigines has indeed been ruthless and high-handed, it seems the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon to sweep inferior races from his path wherever he goes.

Now they let them rape their daughters. What went wrong?

>>2185382

>1488

Here you go. You deserve it for those digits.

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On Lovecraft's appreciation for his correspondence via letters with fellow literary enthusiasts

>"an isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the publick at first-hand and be directed toward solid reality [...] then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form."

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On one correspondent's impressions upon visiting Lovecraft's apartment in Providence

>""He was a tall man, of sallow complexion, very animated [...] with dark, sparkling eyes. I don't know if this description makes much sense, but that was the impression he made - a very vital person. We were friends immediately. [...] when you went into the room that he occupied there were no windows - it was completely cut off, and he just lived by artificial light. [...] The room was very stuffy, very dusty (he wouldn't allow anybody to dust it, especially the books); his bedding was quite (I hate to say this) dirty [...] And he had nothing to eat excepting a piece of cheese."

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On Lovecraft visiting a correspondent in Quebec

>"Early the following Tuesday morning, before I had gone to work, Howard arrived [...] I have never before nor since seen such a sight. Folds of skin hanging from a skeleton. Eyes sunk in sockets like burns holes in a blanket. Those delicate, sensitive artist's hands and fingers nothing but claws. The man was dead except for his nerves, on which he was functioning [...] I was scared."

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>>2185382

http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/104495239/

Fugg forgot the link sorry

>monitor pol
>identify people that seem to be held in high esteem by pol
>oh hey pol, did you know that TED KACZYNSKI LIKED TO SADISTICALLY TORTURE DOGS?

Oh hey, it's this creepy GCHQ op where they rewrite history using anonymous sources, shitting all over anyone that has been identified as admired by /pol/ without doing real arguing or research. Gee, I wonder why they have nothing to say about Jean Genet or William Burroughs or Pasolini.

>>2185267
>sex isn't intellectual or beautiful
People who think like this must be quite frustrated. And even so, it's a biological drive no different then wanting food when you're hungry, how can you just "kill" your desire to reproduce?

>>2185362
"one cannot speak calmly about the mongoloid problem of New York". Later on in the letter, he declares: "I hope the end will be warfare -- but not till such a time as our own minds are fully freed of humanitarian hindrances of the Syrian superstition imposed upon us by Constantinus. Then let us show our physical power as men and Aryans, and conduct a scientific wholesale deportation from which there will be neither flinching nor retreating

Fucken based my dude

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>>2185389
Wow, thank you, Ted is one of my heroes

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On Lovecraft's reaction to his work being rejected

>"The whole issue of Lovecraft's sensitivity to rejection, or to bad opinions of his work generally, deserves consideration. [...] he scorned the idea of writing about "ordinary people" in order to increase his audience, and [wrote] "There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression.[...] repeated rejections do work in a certain way on my psychology - rationally or not - & [...] their effect is to cause in me a certain literary lockjaw which absolutely prevents further fictional composition"

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On Lovecraft defining his craft

>"I try to utilise as many as possible of the elements which have, under earlier mental and emotional conditions, given man a symbolic feeling of the unreal, the ethereal, & the mystical [...] I have tried to weave them into a kind of shadowy phantasmagoria which may have the same sort of vague coherence as a cycle of traditional myth or legend - with nebulous backgrounds of elder forces & trans-galactic entities which lurk about this infinitesimal planet [...] establishing outposts thereon, & occasionally brushing aside other accidental forms of life (like human beings) in order to take up full habitation. [...] The actual climaxes of tales based on such elements naturally have to do with sudden latter-day intrusions of forgotten elder forces on the placid surface of the known."


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Time to get /comfy/

>>2185384
>Purity, chastity, fidelity, decency, have become ridiculous stigmata. The value of a human being is measured today by his economic efficiency and his erotic potency"
Who wrote this shit? Not even liberals are this crazy.

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On Lovecraft's popularity late in his life

>"Lovecraft was becoming the hub of an increasingly complex network of fans and writers in the field of weird and science fiction; and in the last four years of his life he attracted a substantial number of young people (mostly boys) who looked upon him as a living legend."

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On a female correspondent visiting Lovecraft

>"Lovecraft paid for all [Helen V.] Sully's expenses -meals, trips, lodging at the boarding house across the street [...] she could not have known what a severe burden this must have placed upon his own perilous financial condition. One evening he took her to one of his favorite haunts, the hidden churchyard of St John's Episcopal Church: "It was dark, and he began to tell me strange, weird stories in a sepulchral tone [...] something about his manner, the darkness, and a sort of eerie light seemed to hover over the gravestones got me so wrought up that I began to run out of the cemetery with him close at my heels, with the one thought that I must get up to the street before he, or whatever it was, grabbed me."

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On the decline of art

>"Bourgeois capitalism gave artistic excellence and sincerity a death-blow by enthroning cheap amusement-value at the expense of that intrinsic excellence which only cultivated, non-acquisitive persons of assumed position can enjoy. The determinant market for written [...] and other heretofore aesthetic material ceased to be a small circle of truly educated persons, but became a substantially larger [...] circle of mixed origin numerically dominated by crude, half-educated clods of whose systematically perverted ideals [...] prevented them from ever achieving the tastes and perspective of the gentlefolk whose dress and speech and external manners they so assiduously mimicked. [...] and they so outnumbered the remaining educated gentlefolk that most of the purveying agencies became at once reorientated to them."

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>>2185388
>"an isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation. No man can learn to reason and appraise from a mere perusal of the writing of others. If he live not in the world, where he can observe the publick at first-hand and be directed toward solid reality [...] then he must sharpen his discrimination and regulate his perceptive balance by an equivalent exchange of ideas in epistolary form."

So basically this guy was a /pol/lack before the internet was invented. Holy shit hes /our guy/

>>2185273
F in peace Nigger-man

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On Lovecraft reconsidering his political allegiances in his 40s

>"In the summer of 1936 Lovecraft made an interesting admission: "I used to be a hide-bound Tory simply for traditional and antiquarian reasons - and because I had never done any real thinking on civics and industry and the future. The depression - and its concomitant publicisation of industrial, financial and governmental problems - jolted me out my lethargy and led me to reexamine the facts of history in the light of unsentimental scientific analysis; and it was not long before I realised what an ass I had been. The liberals at whom I used to laugh were the ones who were right [...] At last I began to recognise something of the way in which capitalism works - always piling up concentrated wealth and impoverishing the bulk of the population until the strain becomes so intolerable as to force artificial reform."

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On Lovecraft's and the qualities of the ideal man

>"what I used to respect was not really aristocracy, but a set of personal qualities which aristocracy then developed better than any other system [...] a set of qualities, however, whose merit lay only in a psychology of non-calculative, non-competitive disinterestedness, truthfulness, courage, and generosity fostered by good education, minimum economic stress, and assumed position"

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On Lovecraft distinguishing aristocrats from the masses

>"We cannot [...] afford to base a civilisation on the low cultural standards of an undeveloped majority. Such a civilisation of mere working, eating, drinking, breeding, and vacantly loafing or childishly playing isn't worth maintaining. None of the members of it are really better of than as if they didn't exist at all [...] No settled, civilised group has any reason to exist unless it can develop a decently high degree of intellectual and artistic cultivation."

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>>2185273
>Nigger-Man's loss perhaps symbolised the loss of his birthplace as no other event cold.
kek'd

I am touched by his romantic experiences. He is R9K and pol personified and he "found gf"!

Not only that, she loved him, and was willing to work around his racism, antisemititism, raging Asperger's, ill health and poverty. As far as I can see all he brought to the table was the ability to proofread.

There is someone for everyone, so take heart!

>>2185370
>>2185373

this is the same exact conclusion I have come to. I didn't even know he felt this way, this deeply and in such detail.

Negroids and Mongoloids behave in a manner lesser than Europeans, albeit both animalistic in nature. The Negroid a monkey that dances and sings and gives no heed to the next day or the repercussions of his actions minute to minute. There is no higher thinking for him and he is happy as a low animal just to be out and to be off a leash yet this is where he is able to do the most damage.

And the mongoloid is like an insect-animal. Appearing human and performing human functions it does so with no apparent cheer or merriment. They work like bees no matter their health.

The Jew is altogether different and one should be wary for like Lovecraft said he is brilliant and cunning but in all the wrong ways. We could likely find a kindred spirit with Jews if they were not so occupied with the negative and take so much pleasure in wickedness. They do not shy away from it and it does not bother them, they feel at home in communion with demons and heaping misery onto the heads of others.

So the WASP is left with only the low minds of the other "humans" and the adversarial dangerous Jew as his equal. Very lonely for us.

>>2185375
>marries a "racist" thinking her magical Jewess pussy will change him
>he continues to proclaim the wickedness of Jews
Sonia BTFO

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On Lovecraft's poverty, regrets and fears for the future late in life

>"I know of few persons whose attainments fall more consistently short of their aspirations, or who in general have less to live for. Every aptitude which I wish I had, I lack. Everything which I value, I have either lost or am likely to lose. Within a decade, unless I can find some job paying at least $10.00 per week, I shall have to take the cyanide route through inability to keep around me the books [...] & other familiar objects which constitute my only remaining reasons for keeping alive. [...] Adverse criticism has of late vastly undermined my confidence in my literary powers. And so it goes."

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On Lovecraft's ill-health

>"On February 28 [1937] he made a feeble response to Talman's continues queries about the Morrow book deal: "Am in constant pain, take only liquid food, and so bloated with gas that I can't lie down. Spend all time in chair propped with pillows, and can read or write only a few minutes at a time"

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On Lovecraft's contradictions and decline

>"Paradoxically, the character of Lovecraft fascinates us partly because his system of values is entirely opposed to ours. Fundamentally racist, openly reactionary, he glorifies puritan inhibition and quite evidently finds repellent any "open display of eroticism". Resolutely anti-commercial, he despises money, considers democracy to be pure folly, progress an illusion. The word "liberty", so dear to Americans, elicits from him only a gloomy sneer. All his life he maintained a typically aristocratic attitude of scorn for humanity in general, together with an extreme solicitude toward individuals in person. [...] Robert Bloch, for example, wrote: "If I had known the truth about the state of his health, I would have run to Providence to see him.""

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>>2185271
I'm not sure wtf this thread is getting at (is this guy redpilled?) but I sure am learning a lot about this oddball.

>>2185282
>>2185281
>he was muh raycist so he cannot be one of the most influential authors of the 20th century
t. people who cant see anything through a non political lens

>>2185281
>>2185282
you need to understand that there are east asians on this board who see eye-to-eye with such whites

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On the diagnosis of Lovecraft's illness

>"Cancer of the small intestine is relatively rare, colon cancer being much more common; as a result, this cancer frequently goes undetected for years, even when patients are examined. Lovecraft, of course, was never examined until a month before his death,at which time is was too late to do anything except relieve his pain - and even massive doses of morphine seemed to offer little alleviation."

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On Lovecraft being admitted to hospital

>"On March 13 Harry Brobst and his wife came to visit Lovecraft in the hospital. Brobsy asked Lovecraft how he felt; Lovecraft responded, "Sometimes the pain is unbearable." Brobst, in parting, told Lovecraft to remember the ancient philosophers. Lovecraft smiled - the only response Brobst received. [...] On March 14 Lovecraft's edema was so severe that a stomach tap drained six and three-forths quarts of fluid."

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On Lovecraft assessing the value of his life

>"Failure though I be, I shall reach a level with the greatest - and smallest - in the damp earth or on the final pyre. [...] Success is a relative thing [...] So I turned to observe other mediocre and handicapped persons about me, and found pleasure in increasing the happiness of those who could be helped by such encouraging words or critical services as I am capable of furnishing. That I have been able to cheer here and there an aged man, an infirm old lady, a dull youth, or a person deprived by circumstances of education, affords to me a sense of being not altogether useless, which almost forms a substitute for the real success I shall never know. [...] Surely it is well that the happiness of the unfortunate be made as great as possible; and he who is kind, helpful, and patient with his fellow-sufferers, adds as truly to the world's combined fund of tranquility as he who, with greater endowments, promotes the birth of empires, or advances the knowledge of civilisation and mankind."

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Aha hi bong friend its been a long time

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>It hasn't been posted yet

Shame on you all.

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On Lovecraft in his final days

>"Lovecraft's final years were characterised both by much hardship (painful rejections of his best tales and concomitant depression over the merit of his work; increasing poverty; and, toward the very end, the onset of his terminal illness) and by moments of joy (travels all along the eastern seaboard; the intellectual stimulus of correspondence with a variety of distinctive colleagues; increasing adulation in the tiny worlds of amateur journalism and fantasy fandom). But to the end, Lovecraft continued to wrestle, mostly in letters, with the fundamental issues of politics, economics, society, and culture, with a breadth of learning, acuity of logic, and a deep humanity born of wide observation and experience that could not have been conceived by the 'eccentric recluse' who had so timidly emerged from self-imposed hermitry in 1914. That his largely private discussions did not have any influence on the intellectual temper of the age is unfortunate; but his unceasing intellectual vigour, even as he was descending into the final stages of cancer, is as poignant a testimonial to his courage and his devotion to the life of the mind as anyone could wish. Lovecraft himself, at any rate, certainly did not think the effort wasted."

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On the death of Howard Phillips Lovecraft

>"Howard Phillips Lovecraft died early in the morning of March 15, 1937. He was pronounced dead at 7.15 A.M."

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Lovecraft had an interesting imagination and seemed to be quite knowledgable, But otherwise had his head completely up his arse.

141786428
I wouldn't really call either of them that influential, just famous (and rightly so), If you are talking about influential hamlet and Flaubert easily beat them out

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Wonderful stuff, Lovecraft died thinking he was a failure, now he's known by millions. Truly excellent work OP.

>>2185307
>>Eternal licence for himself he pleads,
>>Yet seeks restraint for his opponents' deeds;

Ever relevant.

>>2185281
>t. Favela monkey

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OP here. This is my final post. I hope the thread was interesting.

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On the final stanza's of Lovecraft's poem 'Despair'

>Evil wings in ether beating;
>Vultures at the spirit eating;
>Things unseen forever fleeting
>Black against the leering sky.
>Ghastly shades of bygone gladness,
>Clawing fiends of future sadness,
>Mingle in a cloud of madness
>Ever on the soul to lie.

>Thus the living, lone and sobbing,
>In the throes of anguish throbbing,
>With the loathsome Furies robbing
>Night and noon of peace and rest.
>But beyond the groans and grating
>Of abhorrent Life, is waiting
>Sweet Oblivion, culminating
>All the years of fruitless quest.

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>>2185352
>>2185407
>>2185369
>>2185293

Pay no attention to the favela-dwelling simian, for soon he shall become affected with ennui and pursue activities more befitting his nature.

Like robbing nail salons while wearing motorcycle helmet.

>>2185415
>http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/104495239/
The Jew seeks to be the master, by whatever means necessary, yet by physicality and mental frivolity he is not. He mind is unhinged and not on the focus of the bigger picture. A rootless race with no homeland cannot focus on how to plan out cities and chart the futures with hard work at pace.

Grand scheming, quick methods, uproarious riots and dislodging governments is his forte and he has not the temperament for anything else. The Jew must absolutely SILENCE all other's voice because it would come to the notice of all that while the Jew is excellent with money and skilled with the word his is absolutely mad. His plans lead to ruin and are not based on reason or logic and only by bribes, payoffs, murder, poison, slander can the Jew appear to be the voice of reason.

>>141794590
>A
>A
>A
>B
>C
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What intriguing rhyming. Does this style have a name?

>>2185259
Oh shit these threads are always good, I was just thinking about Lovecraft today too, spooky

>>2185391
Are you a literal negro or just baiting, I can't tell

>>2185264
>t. subhuman social transnigger justice wannabe enforcer

Don't you have a dilation session to attend

>>2185307
>>2185310
>>2185312
fucking great stuff, mate.

>>2185391
> One is vital and an individual act
>The other isn't and its social.
A man can live all their lives without sex but no without food or water

>>2185277
Remove your autistflag, then you can talk

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OP here.

Here is a list of similar threads for anybody interested:

>Adolf Hitler - Youth (Age 0 - 25)
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/86086584/

>Adolf Hitler - First World War (Age 25 - 29)
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/134340484/

>Ted Kaczynski
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/104495239/

>Timothy McVeigh
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/118541028/

>Anders Breivik
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/87875112/

>Joseph Goebbels
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9031886

>William Cottrell
https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/30930679

>Adam Lanza
https://desuarchive.org/r9k/thread/24985710/

>Christopher Thomas Knight
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/122023099/

>Christopher McCandless
http://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/122167113/

>Christopher Harper-Mercer
https://4archive.org/board/r9k/thread/31293613

>Bill Hicks
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/128627797/

>Dylann Roof
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/139008559/

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Thank you.
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>>2185282
>>2185281
Please kill yourself unironically

>>2185274
no but you're a faggot

>>2185426
>>Christopher Thomas Knight
>>Christopher McCandless
>>Christopher Harper-Mercer
That's a lot of Christophers. When will you cover Cristopher Poole?
Jokes aside, thanks for the thread.

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>>2185426
Thank you!!

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>>2185426
Fuck, thank you, these are the best thing on /pol/. No homo.

>>2185389
can you find the one about goebbels?

>>2185259
> nigger man

>>2185411
>didn't read the thread
>talking about shame

Not gonna bullshit. I never knew fuck all about him before this thread. I obviously knew the name but had not read anything by him previous to this thread. Good thread OP. I enjoyed

>>2185291
Yeah. what a sad sorry faggot.
>>2185282
KYS, Nigger-Man

Greatly appreciated OP, this was an awesome read.

>>2185304
>bowdenpepe2.png
kek

@OP: No biggie but I'd be curious to see your sources at the end. I read a rather homogenized Lovecraft bio in my adolescence - a very early one, maybe the first, I forget the author - and it excluded or glossed over many of the interesting details you've brought to light.

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>>2185426
Holy shit, thanks man. I just copied all of them into various .txt files. This is fantastic.

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> Mfw this thread
> Mfw one of my favorite authors is a racist antisemitic NEET autist

>>2185426
thanks

I used to be a fan of Lovecraft because of his interesting style of fiction. Finding out that he was an antisemite makes me like him even more.

>>2185282
>>2185281
>shitskins having taste
Shut the fuck up nigger. Hollywood is total garbage that only retards like.
If hollywood avoids it it's probably too good for them.

>>2185259
Great thread OP, appreciate all your threads, thanks.

>>2185263
>>2185290
>>2185317
>>2185315
>You will notice that I have made no reference to childish friends & playmates - I had none! The children I knew disliked me, & I disliked them.

>To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,
>Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER."

>Eroticism belongs to a lower order of instincts, and is an animal rather than nobly human quality

>This leads inevitably to a class distinction that is neatly summed up in the compact utterance: "The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.""
truly /ourguy/

GUYZ? HOW DO I SAVE DA THREAD?

>>2185267
>Lovecraft "abhorred the thought" and, fresh from an initial study of Latin, responded with a line from Cicero: "Nemo fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit!" ("Scarcely any sober person dances, unless by chance he is insane".

wew lad

mods fucked your shit up senpai

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>/pol/

lol faggots

Im white for one

have any of you even known a black person... most of them are not these redic stereotypes.

There is a group of people who have commodified and took over urban culture and created all these things you dislike about them.

But most of them grow out of that stuff and many find fault with it and do not participate.

Blacks dont even work against you... there are outliers where they can one up you in sports or dating which is a sore spot.

But honestly, the hate against blacks is redic here.

Hate the people who are pushing the bad shit.

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>>2185440
got news for you, pretty much any author before WW2 was a bonefide racist

>>2185426
OP, I'd like to see Nixon and Churchill threads one of these days