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[Anonymous No.17379025]

WHAT'S THAT?

A GIANT OCTOPUS HEAD SORT OF ANCIENT BEING????

OH NO, I'M GOING INSANEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

SAVE ME, NIGGERMAN!!!!!

[Anonymous No.17379083]

>>17379025
It actually makes a lot more sense once you understand that the dreadful tentacled creatures are a metaphor for social awkwardness, autism and alienation dragging our hapless nerdy white protagonist down, and that his jovial black friend (here amusingly reimagined as a literal "cool cat") has to swoop in and help him out with his natural slick negro wit and charm.

[Anonymous No.17379085]

>>17379025
>XII. The Howler

>They told me not to take the Briggs’ Hill path
That used to be the highroad through to Zoar,
For Goody Watkins, hanged in seventeen-four,
>Had left a certain monstrous aftermath.
>Yet when I disobeyed, and had in view
>The vine-hung cottage by the great rock >slope,
>I could not think of elms or hempen rope,
>But wondered why the house still seemed so >new.

>Stopping a while to watch the fading day,
>I heard faint howls, as from a room upstairs,
>When through the ivied panes one sunset ray
>Struck in, and caught the howler unawares.
>I glimpsed—and ran in frenzy from the place,
>And from a four-pawed thing with human >face.