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The dream cycle hp lovecraft6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() NoirSeanF: I doubt that this collection is "most popular for the Randolph Carter pseudo-series," which form a very minor facet of Lovecraft's impressive oeuvre. Porius: there is absolutely no indication that HPL ever came to "accept the dreaded asiatic horde"-just the opposite. He was raised in a racist household, by a mother and aunts who applauded the poem he wrote when he was very young, "On the Creation of Niggers." He wrote that poem to entertain his family and get acceptance from them, and they rewarded him for it. Most of the notorious racists whom I know will have absolutely nothing to do with the racists they abhor-nothing and so in this Lovecraft's racism was singular in nature. They were deeply in love, but the marriage was destroyed, as Sonia wrote in a letter to Samuel Loveman, by HPL's hatred of the Jewish race, which was manifested in Lovecraft's perpetual harping of to his long-suffering wife. Sonia was a beautiful, vibrant woman and she swept Lovecraft off his feet. But he set this bigotry aside in the cases of individuals whom he met or with whom he corresponded. Lovecraft's Antisemitism was directed at the Jewish race as it manifested itself in Urban communities-Lovecraft often complains of the "packs" of non-whites he encountered. I wanted to respond in brief to some few of your own comments. ![]()
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