/lit/ - Literature

Cthulhu Rlyeh! I love him. But the weird thing is that I love him because I discovered him AFTER discovering Lord Dunsany, who is a huge influence on the early stuff like The Rats of Ulthar. Dunsany is an Irish Lord who is writing the same time as Yeats, but he writes a sort of ghostly Lewis Carroll type of tale... it's like Maeterlinck, maybe. It's always set in some fantasy la-la land where the characters have weird magical events happening FOR NO REASON, like a Henry Darger painting almost. It's just... strange. And then Lovecraft sees that, it's not strange, it's actually kind of scary. And he sort of re-invents Gothic as a new kind of American genre. Something which is frightened of something huge and mindless and absolutely incomprehensible. I see Cthulhu as the metempsychotic revenge on Sigmund Freud for dissecting all those eels trying to castrate them (literally). Cthulhu is the Return of everything Sigmund Freud repressed.

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>good ideas
>tattoo
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