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On Lovecraft's solitary youth
>"You will notice that I have made no reference to childish friends & playmates - I had none! The children I knew disliked me, & I disliked them. I was used to adult company & conversation, & despite the fact that I felt shamefully dull beside my elders, I had nothing in common with the infant train. Their romping & shouting puzzled me. I hated mere play & dancing about - in my relaxations I always desired *plot*"
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On Lovecraft's female cousin's memory of him as a young boy
>"Mrs Ethel Phillips Morrish [...] confessed in an interview [...] that she did not much care for her cousin, finding him eccentric and aloof. She became very irritated because Lovecraft did not apparently know how a swing worked.
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On young Lovecraft's father's illness
>"There is little to reason to doubt Lovecraft when he says that "my image of him is but vague": he lived with him for only the first two and a half years of his life [...] The illness that struck Winfield Scott Lovecraft [...] is worth examining in detail. The Butler Hospital medical record reads as follows: For a year past he has shown obscure symptoms of mental disease - doing and saying strange things at times; has, also, grown pale and thin in flesh. He continues his business, however, until Apr 21, when he broke down completely while stopping in Chicago. [...] He was extremely noisy and violent for two days, but was finally quieted by free use of the bromides [...] By December 5 Winfield was said to be failing, with frequent convulsions [...] On December 16, 1896, Winfield developed an ulcer on the penis, possible from masturbation. [...] by the spring of 1898 [...] blood and mucus are found in his stool."
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