Lovecraft, was Re: [lbo-talk] How come nobody talks about the New socialist senator

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 9 09:56:23 PST 2006


--- "Michael J. Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:


>
> There was a rather entertaining piece about HPL a
> couple
> of weeks back in the NYRB. Not exactly a "class
> analysis,"
> but fun. Apparently Lovecraft was, if I may coin a
> term,
> pamphobic -- he was scared of just about everything.
>
> It was quite a list and included things like spoons,
>
> if memory serves. Can't remember now who wrote
> the essay.
>
>

Non-Euclidean, Cyclopean spoons, no doubt.

I have been a Lovecraft fan since my teens and periodiically go back to him. Anyway I was rereading The Shadow over Innsmouth and Dreams in the Witch-House recently and was again struck by how incredibly racist he is. Foreigners are all slack-jawed and prone to evil -- and that's just Poles, let's not even start talking about Blacks. If you have sex with someone of a different race, your children will likely be horrid monsters. And so forth. It's so over-the-top it's funny.

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