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On Lovecraft's reaction to other races in New York
>"Soon after we were married he told me that whenever we have company he would appreciate it if there were 'Aryans' in the majority. [...] whenever he would meet crowds of people - in the subway, or, at the noon hour, on the sidewalks in Broadway, or crowds, wherever he happened to find them, and these were usually the workers of minority races - he would become livid with anger and rage. [...] It was then that he said: "It is more important to know what to hate than it is to know what to love.""
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On Lovecraft's sexual relations with his wife
>"We learn [...] that: first, he was a virgin at the time he married; second, prior to his marriage he had read several books on sex; and third, he never initiated sexual relations, but would respond when Sonia did so. [...] Sonia herself has only two comments on the matter. 'As a married man he was an adequately excellent lover, but refused to show his feelings in the presence of others. [...] One way of expression of H.P.'s sentiment was to wrap his "pinkey" finger around mine and say "Umph!""
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On Lovecraft's attempts to find a job to provide for himself and his wife
>"Lovecraft was forced to look much more vigorously for a job - any job - than before. Now [...] begins the futile [...] hunting through the classified ads every Sunday in the New York Times for any position that might conceivably be available; but Lovecraft came face to face with a realisation as true then as now: "Positions of every kind seem virtually unattainable to persons without experience" [...] What he says is the job that "came nearest to materialisation" was a salesman's position with the Creditors' National Clearing House [...] he attended a salesmen's meeting in Newark to learn the ropes [...] but did not generate a single sale [...] the head of the Newark branch, William J. Bristol, [...] quickly took him aside."
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