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What was his obsession with the sea?

>> No.16793755

to be fair sea food is disgusting

>> No.16793765

He was from Rhode Island. That's all that's going on there.

>> No.16793767

>>16793569
he ripped off lautreamont

>> No.16793770

>>16793569
In a world where mystery was disappearing, the depths of the sea were a potential terrain for the imagination.

>> No.16793781

>>16793569
same as his obsession with space

>> No.16793836

>>16793569
Non-whites come to America from the other side of the sea

>> No.16793930
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16793930

>>16793569
Unda da sea

>> No.16793958

>>16793569
When, long ago, the gods created 4chan
In Moot's fair image Anons were shaped as can.
The waifus for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too 2D for humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Anon,
Th'Animeian host conceiv'd a clever con.
A NEET they wrought, a semi-human bore,
Filled it with false pride, and called the thing a Janitor.

>> No.16794727
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16794727

>>16793755
Based. Chicken and fish are primitive life forms and spoil too damn fast.

>>16793770
They still are. We are yet to see any aliens, or anything interesting from space, really, aside from the occasional asteroid that may crash on earth, or dumb shit like that there's water on Mars, as if we're unironically meaning to terraform it.

Meanwhile, our oceans are just a submarine's ride away, and they're full of nightmarish-looking creatures.

>> No.16794795

>>16793569
Not familiar with thalassophobia and the abyss? The sea is too large and deep for the human mind to properly visualize and thus an easy stepping stone for cosmic horror.

>> No.16794803

he wrote about his nightmares so when hed wake up soaked in a puddle of piss hed write about the sea

>> No.16794917

>>16793569
the sea refuses no river

>> No.16795494

sorry for killing the topic.

>> No.16795941

>>16793569
endless and without form. brine does not support the life that we know

>> No.16795967

>>16793569
Drowning fantasies are supposed to be schizo-tier return to the womb allusions

>> No.16796079

>>16793958
this is actually pretty good

>> No.16796086

>>16795967
beneath the water is also representative of the unconscious mind. however, i don't believe that or the return to the womb thing are what lovecraft was angling at.

>> No.16797394

>>16793569
He is afraid of tentacles and the sea because that cuck is a turbovirgin and autist.

>> No.16798322

>>16797394
holy based

>> No.16798407

>>16793569
He's from New England. Probably grew up in a fishing area. If you're near water then the marina is embedded into the culture.

>> No.16798904

His stories are mostly all set in New England. Where else was the unknown horror supposed to come from besides the ocean? The desert? Did it. Outer space? Did it. Underground? Did it. The backwoods? Did it. Tenement housing? Did it. Sleep? Did it. The ocean was a natural source for horror given the setting, but it's not like it's the only one he leaned on.

>> No.16799900

>>16793765
Lois! It's HP Lovecraft and his talking cat!

>> No.16801407

>>16793569
He lived by the sea

>> No.16801419

>>16793569
the sea is spooky because its huge, unexplored, and humans cant survive under it for very long

>> No.16801429

>>16793569
Huge, stretching beyond the horizont, hostile to humans, with great depths light will never reach.