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On Lovecraft's mother encouraging her son to find employment
>"he was slowly - probably through his mother's urging - making tentative forays at professional employment. His scorn of commercial writing prevented him from submitting his work to paying magazines [...] it means that Lovecraft [...] commenced what would become his only true renumerative occupation: revising and ghostwriting."
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On Lovecraft and his mother's lifestyle in his mid-to-late twenties
>"Lovecraft himself [...] continued to live alone with his mother at 598 Angell Street. The nature of their relations for much of the period 1904 - 19 is a mystery. [..] His sporadic efforts to earn an income by revision, and his whimsical thoughts of turning into a hack writer, give the impression that he was not very serious about supporting himself; but we shall see that Susie was very concerned about this matter [...] All in all, relations between Lovecraft and Susie could not have been very wholesome. Lovecraft was still doing almost no travelling outside the city, and the lack of a regular job must have kept him at home nearly all day, week after week. "
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On Lovecraft considering becoming a teacher
>"in early 1920 Lovecraft mused about the following: 'I have been wondering lately if I could ever manage, under the pressure of poverty, to accept a position in an evening school. A day school, of course, would be out of the question - for I can rarely keep up that long for two successive days. If fairly frequent absences could be pardoned. I might manage to keep up with the evening hours - but fancy my trying to hold in check a roomful of incipient gangsters! It seems as though every avenue of remunerative activity is closed to a total nervous wreck!' [...] How he could have imagined that any night school would hire a high-school dropout who might be subject to "fairly frequent absences" is beyond fathoming."
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