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"...Lovecraft draws on the Puritan impulse to scare the living bejeezus out of his audience with a mad xenophobia and a deep disgust that perhaps compensates for the (unacknowledged?) knowledge that it was his people who persecuted the Quakers and murdered the Indians. Lovecraft's dread of the Old Ones is suffused with guilt. It wasn't sex that he most feared but the return of a historical repressed."

http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/0520,vls7,64039,21.html

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I think that, in real life, there's a chance that Mr Lovecraft might have been annoying as fuck to have around.