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One of the greatest writers of the 20th century yet /lit/ pseud midwits hate him because of le evil cat name. lovecraft is the anti midwit, the anti ironybro

>> No.19117046

>>19117038
Dishonest threadmaking

>> No.19117060

>>19117038
On the Creation of Niggers (1912)
by H. P. Lovecraft

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 the 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.

source https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers

>> No.19117104

>>19117038
Retard

>> No.19117139
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>>19117046
>>19117060
>>19117104
>And the more I study the question, the more firmly am I convinced that the one supreme race is the Teuton. Observe the condition in the British Isles. The English are wholly Teutonic, and therefore dominant. The southern Scotch and eastern Irish are also of that blood—they certainly surpass their fellows to the north and west. The Welsh, who have no Teutonic blood, are of little account. Had it not been for the Teutonic infusion at the beginning of the Dark Ages, southern Europe would have been lost. Who were these early “French” kings and heroes that founded French civilisation? Teutons, to a man! It was the Teutonic might of Charles Martel that drove the Saracen Semite out of Gaul. Who were the Normans? Teutons of the North. It is pitiful to me to hear apostles of equity pipe out that other races can equal this foremost of all—this successor to the Roman race in power and virility.

>> No.19117158

>>19117038
That's not Clark Ashton Smith.

>> No.19117168
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>>19117139
Is this some kind of anglo cope?

>> No.19117174

Lovecraft threads are so obvious and so boring. And I love him.

>> No.19117182
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>>19117168
celtcuck amerimutt larpers seething
>Did we not pour down out of our native forests and reclaim a degenerate Europe where civilisation, under effete Mediterranean dregs, was dying out? My God! The very name of France comes from our huge yellow-bearded Franks, and in Spain they call a gentleman a hidalgo -- hijo del goda -- son of the Goth -- the huge blue-eyed, conquering Nordick! Fancy a world without Clovis -- or its Charlemagne -- the Teuton Karlomann, and the Vikings and the Norsemen...ho for the frozen seas and the epick of sleet and blood, strange lands and far wonders! Greenland, Iceland, Normandy, England, Sicily -- the world was ours, and the mountainous billows heaved with the Cyclopean rhythm of our barbarick chants and shouts of mastery! Art? By Woden, were not our deeds and battles, our victories and empires, all parts of a poem more wonderful then aught which Homer cou'd strike from a Grecian lyre? Ho! Yaah! We are men! We are big men! We are strong men, for we make men do what we want! Let no man balk us, for our gods are big gods, and our arms and our swords are tough! Hrrrr! The stones of towns fall down when we come, and crows love us for the feast of dead men we give them. The lands shake with the thump of our feet, and hills grow flat when we stride up and down them. The floods are dry when we have drunk them, and no beasts are left when we have killed and gorged. By day we kill and seize, at dusk we feast and drink, by nights we snore and dream big dreams of strange seas we shall sail, old towns we shall burn, stout men we shall slay, wild beasts we shall hunt, deep cups we shall drain, fat boars we shall tear limb from limb with our hands, and gnaw with our sharp teeth. Great Thor, but this is life! We ask no more! We know the cool of deep woods, and the spell of their gloom and the things void of name that lurk or may lurk in them.

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>>19117168
Imagine thinking Julius Caesar was an emporer. That simple and basic error doesn't lend much credence to the quotes.

>> No.19117203

>>19117168
Y-you know that Anglos conquered Britain hundreds of years after the Roman conquest and some number of years after the Romans had left? Your /pol/ meme refers to comments made by prominent Romans about the indigenous CELTIC population of Britain which Lovecraft denigrates in that quote of his

>> No.19117250

>>19117182
I love him, it's like reading the shit post of a basement dweller. While Smith was fighting bushfires single handlely, Lovecraft was having a mental breakdown because a Sicilian in NY told him "buona giornata".

>> No.19117449

>>19117158
Smith has boring content, and lacks the meta-aspect, but has a distinct style that seeps through every work. He is great, but not as profound as Lovecraft.

>>19117038
Yes he is fantastic, people often miss the existentialism and the autobiographical aspects to his work. Nobody depicts Autumnal gothic skies, and a Man alone in his room plagued by thoughts as well as Lovecraft does. His later novels are close to Finnegans Wake tier.

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>>19117192
'Emperor' is an anachronism, by all accounts he would be considered an imperator, which at its most basic refers to someone who holds military command, be it of a legion or over the entire state (he held the office of dictator)

>>19117203
And yet despite all coping the vast majority of anglos are descended from these swamp-dwellers of old. I don't know why you would prefer the ancestry to be Germanic however, hardly seems an improvement to be descended from mud-hut dwelling savages instead

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>>19117874
>And yet despite all coping the vast majority of anglos are descended from these swamp-dwellers of old. I don't know why you would prefer the ancestry to be Germanic however, hardly seems an improvement to be descended from mud-hut dwelling savages instead
Cope and seethe more celtic larper
Anglos and Scots are vastly descended from the Germanic tribes of old

>> No.19118490

>>19117955
Should I place more faith in a genetic study from the Oxford research team or some /pol/ schizo infographic containing nothing of substance? It's hilarious to think that you have that 'proof' saved on your computer to wheel out whenever you feel the need to defend your strange ideas of nord-supremacy or whatever it is exactly you're trying to demonstrate. I promise you I am being sincere when I say that I don't think I've seen such a level of coping before

>> No.19118500

>>19117038
Ive honestly never read a single thing by Lovecraft because Im not much of a fantasy fiction guy. But ill tell you, i never cared about the cat name. The thing that was always put me off from the guy was his weird sexual attitudes.

>> No.19118507

>>19117060
Based pottery.

>> No.19118524

>>19117955
Funny how this infographic includes a study of individualism vs collectivism according to which Anglos are the most individualistic when individualism is not necessarily a good thing

>> No.19118554

>>19117038
When these idiots are done babbling about antiracist witchfinding, people will still read and be entertained by HPL.

>> No.19118562

>>19117038
He is unironically one of the greats.

>> No.19118578

>>19118490
I like how his percentage of all people mentioned doesn't even follow a real pareto distribution, that's how you know it's some manmade shit

>> No.19118923

>>19117139
It seems that text is dated Dec. 11, 1923. (narratif dot narod dot ru slash lovecraft-race dot htm)

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young Conover, having established contact with Henneberger, the ex-owner of WT, obtained from the latter a long epistle which I wrote Edwin Baird on Feby. 3, 1924, in response to a request for biographical & personal data. Little Willis asked permission to publish the text in his combined SFC-Fantasy, & I began looking the thing over to see what it was like—for I had not the least recollection of ever having penned it. Well .... I managed to get through, after about 10 closely typed pages of egotistical reminiscences & showings-off & expressions of opinion about mankind & the universe. I did not faint—but I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades—was I that much of a dub at 33 ... only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it—I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snonbish, self-centered, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better! That earlier illness had kept me in seclusion, limited my knowledge of the world, & given me something of the fatuous effusiveness of a belated adolescent when I finally was able to get out more around 1920, is hardly much of an excuse. Well—there was nothing to be done ..... except to rush a note back to Conover & tell him I'd dismember him & run the fragments through a sausage-grinder if he ever thought of printing such a thing! The only consolation lay in the reflection that I had matured a bit since '24. It's hard to have done all one's growing up since 33—but that's a damn sight better than not growing up at all. Here's hoping that Henneberger (quite a get-rich-quick Wallingford in his way) won't try to blacken me with the letter!

>> No.19119253

Whats the recommended collection of his stories?

>> No.19119266

>>19117038
I would argue that his primary fanbase are also pseud midwits, people who think they are smart, deep, and edgy for reading the Cthulhu stories.

Overall, having read pretty much all of his major works, I find that he doesn’t have much to say but that his storytelling is generally very entertaining. He was certainly a talented writer and deserves to be called literature, but he’s not on the level of the “Greats” imo.

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>>19118490
>>19118524
Cope
Anglos+Scots are Germanic. the average anglo is closer in genetics to a frisian or dane than he is to a fenian
cry more though and keep larping as a gael

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>>19119310
celt larpers btfo

>> No.19119323

His racism was the only thing about him. Aside from it he was just another boring New England faggot with mommy issues.

>> No.19119523

>>19119266
That's a lot of words to say "filtered"

For my high school final essay I wanted to present some HPL text, my English teacher (degree in Germanic literature, sic) told me "Never heard of him"

I felt sad desu

>> No.19119598

>>19117139
He's not wrong though.

>> No.19119612

>>19117038
No one here hates him for his racism.

>> No.19119714

>>19119612
Yeah, I'm antiracist myself and I would never not read an author because of his "racism"