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>at least for the pulp milieu he was writing in
Sounds like you broadly agree with the opinion I expressed in the post.
>he hated blacks which is something everybody did at the time
So you agree that he did a heckin racism like the redditors say.
You'd be correct that most people were racist back then. But he really thought about this stuff, developed it, wrote long letters to friends about his exotic neighbors. It wasn't just a thoughtless attitude osmosed from his environment. To say he was a product of his time with nothing more going on would be doing the man a disservice.
All of this is besides the point though. The image says that Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a counterexample to his racism. Would you defend that statement?
>No it doesn't
It uses the word "indescribable". It's right there. First sentence, fifth word.
>And do you think all monsters in horror fiction should be described to the last detail?
No? I said nothing of the sort.