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On Lovecraft becoming an amateur journalist
>"The literature produced by members [of the United Amateur Press Association] varied widely in both content and quality: poetry, essays, fiction, reviews, news items, polemics, and every other form of writing that can fit into a small compass. [...] Lovecraft realised the beneficial effects of amateurdom when he wrote in 1921: "Amateur Journalism has provided me with the very world in which I live. Of a nervous and reserved temperament, and cursed with an aspiration which far exceeds my endowments, I am a typical misfit in the larger world of endeavour, and singularly unable to derive enjoyment from ordinary miscellaneous activities. In 1914. when the kindly hand of amateurdom was first extended to me, I was as close to the state of vegetation as any animal well can be"
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On Lovecraft explaining the purpose of the United Amateur Press Association
>"The United aims to assist those whom the other forms of literary influence cannot reach. The non-university man, the dwellers in different places, the recluse, the invalid, the very young, the elderly; all these are included within our scope. [...] In no other society does wealth or previous learning count for so little [...] It is an university, stripped of every artificiality and conventionality, and thrown open to all without distinction. Here may every man shine according to his genius, and here may the small as well as the great writer known the bliss of appreciation and the glory of recognised achievement."
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