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Originally Posted by NameGoesHere1066
I had to read H.P Lovecraft when I was senior in school along with Edgar Allen Poe. He's a werido that Lovecraft but you have to respect his imagination. It's really rich. It's shame though, I know he was a just reflection of the bigotry of the time period, but he was bonified racist.
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yeah, Lovecraft is definately a victim of the time period he lived in, in terms of his views of indivuduals of different ethnic backgrounds. But what really sort of smooths out his bigoted views in his stories is oddly his view that
all humanity is crap and inferior to the "elder gods", no matter how evoltionarily advanced humanity is. It's kind of funny...he pretty much depicts humanity as a speck on the ass of the universe that can easily be flicked off by one of the elders if they should choose to do so.
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Yeah, he has a very grim outlook on life. Everything is doom and gloom, we humans are insignificant and constantly getting ass reamed by the elder gods.
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he also had a pretty f*cked up childhood if I remember his biography correctly, that was probably a contributing factor to his grim outlook on life.
Does any one here remember off hand who where the other authurs that contributed to his Cthulhu mythos?