>>57516904Of Mice And Men
I hadn't read this before and was immediately charmed by the way Steinbeck described scenes. What really had me smiling to myself was the the way the characters' accent was not just assumed, Steinbeck wrote out the words the way someone from that part of america would say them. I could actually imagine what George and Lennie looked like after being described. I could literally imagine the scene as if it was a movie, that's how well Steinbeck's style worked for me. Especially the scene where Curley's wife first appears felt reminiscent of scenes I had scene in older movies. If the book was a bunny I would pet it. Sadly it's a pdf so I can only rate it a 8/10
Rats in the Walls
I had actually not only read this before multiple times, I had helped a friend write an essay on it for her course in uni. The essay sadly focused on the notion that the story might be an allegorical criticism of the first world war. I don't want to believe Lovecraft would feel the need to cloud his opinions in allegory, he wrote a treatise on cats being better than dogs. No, I believe this is just him writing cosmic horror with the tool of compressing human history by way of describing the underground ruins and then juxtaposing all that extremely long time of different human civilisations with the more than ancient eldritch thing his ancestors had been thrall to. This is the real terror, that
below all the great history of humanity, that terrible threat had always loomed over us.Also cat name etc. Lovecrafts writing style itself isn't anything to write home about, but if anything, the clear no-nonsense style lends credence to the notion of this actually being a real report on an event that had happened to some poor guy. Definitely read up on Cybelle, the magna mater mentioned in the story. It's /d/ as fuck. 7/10
