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On the height of Lovecraft's racist feelings
>"It is no longer a matter of the well-bred racism of the WASP; this is brutal hatred, that of the trapped animal made to share its cage with beasts of a different, and formidable, species. And yet, ultimately, his hypocrisy and his good education bore up; as he wrote to his aunt: "It does not behove individuals of our class to make ourselves conspicuous by our speech or inconsiderate actions." After the example of his neighbours, whenever he comes across representatives of other races, Lovecraft grits his teeth, blanches slightly, but keeps his cool. His exasperation is given free rein only in his letters - before being released in his stories. It transforms little by little into a phobia. His vision, nourished by hatred, is elevated to naked paranoia, and higher still, to absolute distraction, foreshadowing the verbal derangements of the "major works""
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On Lovecraft's longing to return to Providence
>"It so happens that I am unable to take pleasure or interest in anything but a mental re-creation of other & better days - for in sooth, I see no possibility of every encountering a really congenial milieu or living among civilised people with old Yankee historic memories again - so in order to avoid the madness which leads to violence & suicide I must cling to the few shreds of old days & old ways which are left to e. [...] they are all that make it possible for me to open my eyes in the morning or look forward to another day of consciousness without screaming in sheer desperation & pounding the walls & floor in a frenzied clamour to bewaked up out of the nightmare of "reality" & my own room in Providence."
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