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On Lovecraft's demeanor in the years of unemployment after leaving highschool
>"Clara Hess [...] wrote: "Sometimes I would see Howard when walking up Angell Street, but he would not speak and would stare ahead with his coat collar turned up and chin down." [...] [Harold W.] Munro states: "Very much an introvert, he darted about like a sleuth, hunched over, always with books or papers clutched under his arm, peering straight ahead recognizing nobody."
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On Lovecraft's shame at being unemployed
>"Of my non-university education, I never cease to be ashamed; but I know, at least, that I could not have done differently. I busied myself at home with chemistry, literature, & the like [...] I shunned all human society, deeming myself too much of a failure in life to be seen socially by those who had known me in youth, & had foolishly expected such great things of me."
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On another poem written while unemployed during his early 20s
>"When, long ago, the Gods created Earth
>In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
>The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
>Yet were they too remote from humankind.
> To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,
>Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
>A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
>Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER."
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