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On Lovecraft's twenty-first birthday
>"He celebrated his twenty-first birthday - August 20, 1911 - by riding the electric trolley cars all day"
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On Lovecraft reading anything available to him
>"One specific type of fiction we know he read in great quantities was the early pulp magazines. [...] One [...] interesting - indeed, almost alarming - fact is that Lovecraft read the entire run of the Railroad Man's Magazine (1906 - 19), a staggering quantity of fiction and articles about railroad. This was the first specialised Munsey pulp, and the image of Lovecraft reading 150 monthly issues of this magazine is somewhat unnerving."
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On Lovecraft's impressive literary stamina
>"What is remarkable is that most of these writers [mentioned by HLP in a letter] did not even write weird fiction [...] This meant that Lovecraft read each issue - sometimes 192 pages, sometimes 240 pages - from cover to cover, month after month or even (when it changes to a weekly) week after week. This is an appalling amount of popular fiction for anyone to read, and in fact it contravened the purpose of the magazines, whereby each member of the family would read only those types of stories that were of interest to him or her. One begins to develop the impression that Lovecraft was compulsive in whatever he did"
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