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OP here. Two things:
1. Apologies if some quotations seem too long; some need full context.
2. I am narrating this chronologically, and will make sure to point out when HPL reaches his 30s, 40s etc.
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On Lovecraft's counter-attack against a Jewish critics of The Conservative magazine
>"In "Concerning the Conservative" Isaacson, keenly [points] out that "There comes a musty smell as of old books with the reader of the Conservative," [...] What Lovecraft did do was write a magnificent poem, "The Isaacsonio-Mortoniad," around September 1915 [...]
>'Whilst the brave Semite loud of freedom cants.
>Against this freedom he, forgetful, rants:
>Eternal licence for himself he pleads,
>Yet seeks restraint for his opponents' deeds;
>With the same force that at oppression rails,
>He'd bar The Jeffersonian from the mails!'"
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On Lovecraft's reaction to the outbreak of the First World War
>"Lovecraft's immediate reaction to the war, however, was a curious one. He did not care what the causes of the war were, or who was to blame; his prime concern was in stopping what he saw was a suicidal racial civil war between the two sides of "Anglo-Saxondom." [...] "High above such national crimes as the Serbian plots against Austria or the German disregard of Belgian neutrality, high above such sad matters as the destruction of innocence lives and property, looms the supremest of all crimes, an offence not only against conventional morality but against Nature itself; the violation of race. In the unnatural racial alignment of the various warring powers we behold a defiance of anthropological principles that cannot but bode ill for the future of the world."
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