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On young Lovecraft's mother's opinion of her unemployed son
>"[Winsfield Townley] Scott rightly conjectures; "However she adored him, there may have been a subconcious criticism of Howard, so brilliant but so economically useless." No doubt her disappointment with her son's inability to finish high school, go to college, and support himself did not help this situation any."
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On Lovecraft's mother's relationship with her son
>"Lovecraft's wife, although she never knew Susie, makes a plausible claim that Susie "lavished both her love and her hate on her only child."; this comment may received confirmation from the following disturbing anecdote related by Clara Hess [...] "She was considered then to be getting rather odd. My call was pleasant enough but the house had a strange and shutup air and the atmosphere seemed weird and Mrs. Lovecraft talked continuously of her unfortunate son who was so hideous that he hid from everyone and did not like to walk upon the streets where people could gaze at him."
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On Lovecraft's appearance as a young man
>"by the age of eighteen or twenty he had perhaps reached his full height of five feet eleven inches, and had probably developed that long, prognathous jaw which he himself in later years considered a physical defect [...] As late as February 1921 [...] Lovecraft writes to his mother of a new suit that "made me appear as nearly respectable as my face permits."
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