[lbo-talk] Lovecraft's fears

Michael J. Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Nov 28 11:19:15 PST 2006


I think this was from the recent NYRB piece.

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 13:56, Andy F wrote:
> Didn't somebody call him "panphobic"? From William Gibson's blog, not
> well attributed:
>
> <http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2006_10_01_archive.asp#115985691315825574>
>
> ...marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people,
> people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments,
> caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental
> architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the
> New England countryside, New York City, fungi and molds, viscous
> substances, medical experiments, dreams, brittle textures, gelatinous
> textures, the color gray, plant life of diverse sorts, memory lapses,
> old books, heredity, mists, gases, whistling, whispering—the things
> that did not frighten him would probably make a shorter list.
>
> --Luc Sante, on H.P. Lovecraft
>
>
>

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