/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22441982]

I miss him bros

[rooin No.22442151]

>>22441982
sterlizt stop posting gems

[Anonymous No.22442174]

>>22441982
i guess you never piss

[Anonymous No.22442178]

>>22441982
i don't he wasn't a good writer. come chimp at me you children

[Anonymous No.22442263]

>>22441982
>I miss him bros
No one has even come close. His highfalutin gibbous moonery is a massive feature, not a bug, and it simply can't be replicated now without seeming ridiculous. It's the same why no has ever touched Tolkien; no one has his mastery of formal, quasi-biblical language. And if they did it would just seem pretentious today.

[Anonymous No.22442366]

>>22441982
Did you read his letters?

[Anonymous No.22442419]

>>22442263
He would have been roiling more so becayse of the Elder Thing on top of her head, rather than the fact she's black.

[Anonymous No.22442512]

>>22442263
>highfalutin gibbous moonery
I am gonna start using that anon thank you.

[Anonymous No.22442517]

>>22442366
Yes I did. Why do you ask anon?

[Anonymous No.22442599]

>>22442263
did she pee on his tombstone?

[Anonymous No.22442746]

>>22442517
Because no one bothers to read his letters even though they are way more kino than his stories.

[Anonymous No.22442987]

>>22442746
Yes they are very good. I really enjoyed them.

[Anonymous No.22443078]

>>22442178
I think it's sad. There was a lot of potential in his books. He created very interesting worlds and then ... nothing.

[Anonymous No.22443106]

>>22442263
Ha, he still got her from the grave

[Anonymous No.22443152]

>>22443106
kek

[Anonymous No.22443340]

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[Anonymous No.22443349]

>>22443106
Miracles do happen

[Anonymous No.22443528]

>>22443078
and now the worlds he created will be ass raped by modern values and different writers

[Anonymous No.22443539]

>>22443106
ingreddible

[Anonymous No.22443611]

What I like about HP Lovecraft is how his racism feels so natural and normal. It's not like todays transgressive edgy type of racism. It's more like an observation. "Hmm the people in this town look weird, they must be mixed". It just makes sense.

[Anonymous No.22443615]

>>22443611
Could this be the dawn of a new literary movement, racist naturalism?

[Anonymous No.22443779]

>>22443611
from his story "Herbert West"
>The bout was fought by Kid O'Brien - a lumpy and now shivering young man with a decidedly un-Anglo-Saxon hook nose - and Buck Robinson "the smoke of Harlem". The Negro was knocked out and didn't seem able to get up.he was a repulsive, gorilla-like fellow, with arms so long I couldn't help calling them forelegs, and a face that conjured up terrible secrets of the Congo and drumbeats under the moon.

We will never have descriptions like these,ever again. He was the true,disenchanted racist
Hya hya Chtuluh ftaghn! :-)

[Anonymous No.22443789]

>>22443779
>a face that conjured up terrible secrets of the Congo and drumbeats under the moon
Kek, what a description

[Anonymous No.22443827]

>>22442746
i read his letters but never read his poetry. I bet it was something inspired by Lord Dunsany, his favourite author

[Anonymous No.22443858]

>>22443827

Despair, by HP Lovecraft

O’er the midnight moorlands crying,
Thro’ the cypress forests sighing,
In the night-wind madly flying,
Hellish forms with streaming hair;
In the barren branches creaking,
By the stagnant swamp-pools speaking,
Past the shore-cliffs ever shrieking;
Damn’d daemons of despair.

Once, I think I half remember,
Ere the grey skies of November
Quench’d my youth’s aspiring ember,
Liv’d there such a thing as bliss;
Skies that now are dark were beaming,
Gold and azure, splendid seeming
Till I learn’d it all was dreaming—
Deadly drowsiness of Dis.

But the stream of Time, swift flowing,
Brings the torment of half-knowing—
Dimly rushing, blindly going
Past the never-trodden lea;
And the voyager, repining,
Sees the wicked death-fires shining,
Hears the wicked petrel’s whining
As he helpless drifts to sea.

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.

[Anonymous No.22443866]

>>22443611
Wasn’t it because he was extremely autistic and just scared of literally everyone not the same exact as him? “Hmmm this guy isn’t the same exact type of white as me. Terrifying!!”

[Anonymous No.22443883]

>>22442263
>>22443106
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>>22443539
Spread it far and wide anons

[Anonymous No.22443895]

>>22443866

Similarity breeds contempt. Racial uncanny valley

[Anonymous No.22443973]

>>22443866
Modern men call each other "crazy" and "schizo" or maybe say "take your meds" to someone who they dislike.
Lovecraft would have call them ugly or savage or impure. But why bother psychologizing your enemies? Just call them evil and move on.

[Anonymous No.22444007]

>Lovecraft got his first job through being an effort posting shitposter

Man I wish the literary world was still as wild and vigorous as it was back then.

[Anonymous No.22444019]

>>22443883
Here's an alternate, more subtle, cut ;)

[Anonymous No.22444104]

Why do people meme on Lovecraft’s prose, calling it purple and convoluted when he himself called Henry James prose as pompous, and one of his main criticisms regarding Gothic fiction was with its writing style that he derided as being pompous/overwrought?

[Anonymous No.22444119]

>>22444104
Because he was self aware about it, and also had a peculiar, personality. When he managed to overcome his literary deficencies he produced some masterpieces IMO

[Anonymous No.22444483]

>>22444019
kek, I think removing the underline is good. But it lends itself to accusations of photoshop. Here's another alternative.

[Anonymous No.22444493]

That dorag must REEK

[Anonymous No.22444500]

>>22444483
I assume most people here know Call of Cthulhu is a popular rpg. The utter faggot jannies on /tg would ban anyone who posts this image INSTANTLY. They're absolutely as bad as anything on reddit and nearly as bad as rpg.net. I'm talking if you post it 100 replies deep in a thread, not as a new image.

[Anonymous No.22444600]

>>22443866
Lovecraft was "old good new bad" and barely had any friends for the first two decades of his life. Literally autistic incel tier. He grew up eventually but died too soon for it to take visible effect.

[Anonymous No.22445154]

>>22444483
Kek this one is superb.

[Anonymous No.22445253]

>>22442263
CAS is better than Lovecraft.

[Anonymous No.22445254]

>>22443106

[Anonymous No.22445538]

>>22443106
baste and from beyondpilled

[Anonymous No.22445620]

>>22445538
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>>22443539
Someone with twitter should send this to her kek

[Anonymous No.22445712]

>>22443858
absolutely based senpai famalam

[Anonymous No.22446539]

>>22443106
I fhtahgned

[Anonymous No.22446630]

>>22443106