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Is Houellebecq correct about Lovecraft's conception of horror being decisively influenced by his disdain for mischlings?

"Mixing," blurring into indistinctness, the triumph of entropy and chaos over form and order, are undeniable features of modernity, especially in the degenerate urban hellholes like New York that Lovecraft inhabited. Was he just a particularly perspicacious observer of this, and translator of it into literature? Are we really looking into a mirror when we look into Lovecraftian horror, seeing our own tranny mulatta face staring back at us?

>> No.19587431

N

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I

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C

>> No.19587478

>>19587422
who cares, why do people try to overcomplicate this stuff. no i will not read the 'bek book about lovecraft. the man hated chaos, which can mean a million things from mutts to architecture, simple as.

>> No.19587483

>>19587422
More like his disdain of sea creatures.

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>>19587478
>why do people read literary criticism
It's interesting

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>>19587422
That loveable blowhard Joshi doesn't think so.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26868554