Reading his work is a task. Brilliant idea guy but “ the portrait which stared back at him like a year-adding and century-recalling mirror.” Yeah we all have one of those year adding century recalling mirrors laying around to compare this idea to.
Thanks for explaining the complex concept of “painting looks kinda like that dude” into something I (a lay person) can understand.
He’s describing it’s like looking into one those bazar and specific magic mirrors we all have. So we can follow the story now that we understand the difficult concept of painting looking like a dude. Thanks lovecraft!
To be clear lovecraft is also very good at suspense in a new way (edit: new at the time) You know the monster is a monster but the character hasn’t figured it out yet. So you’re waiting and for them to figure it out.
Chef kiss. Brilliant. However that’s also an idea. The actual writing is like a hyper-hyphenated pit of radioactive snakes who have daddy issues with the snake god yig who wants to protect snakes but also uses snakes as punishment in situations where they snakes will absolutely die but shows a dramatic point about protecting snakes I guess kinda.
That’s lovecraft.
I’m his biggest fan. I spent $1000 to have a custome mistkatonic university ring made. Love his work. Not a great writer and also racist in the phobia sense not the “I’m better” sense. He legitimately fears Irish people and their witchcraft.
It also doesn’t help that Lovecraft was at the tail end of an old style of writing while in many ways being a forerunner of a newer style. Makes his works kinda clunky if that makes sense, like I get the same feeling from Mark Twain for example. So the tedium probably comes from being not quite old not quite modern where it just ends up awkward, also tack on the fact he was revolutionizing suspense in a lot of ways and yeah… Not fun.
I’ve read all his work. Including old bugs.
Reading his work is a task. Brilliant idea guy but “ the portrait which stared back at him like a year-adding and century-recalling mirror.” Yeah we all have one of those year adding century recalling mirrors laying around to compare this idea to.
Thanks for explaining the complex concept of “painting looks kinda like that dude” into something I (a lay person) can understand.
He’s describing it’s like looking into one those bazar and specific magic mirrors we all have. So we can follow the story now that we understand the difficult concept of painting looking like a dude. Thanks lovecraft!
I love lovecraft. He’s not a great writer.
To be clear lovecraft is also very good at suspense in a new way (edit: new at the time) You know the monster is a monster but the character hasn’t figured it out yet. So you’re waiting and for them to figure it out.
Chef kiss. Brilliant. However that’s also an idea. The actual writing is like a hyper-hyphenated pit of radioactive snakes who have daddy issues with the snake god yig who wants to protect snakes but also uses snakes as punishment in situations where they snakes will absolutely die but shows a dramatic point about protecting snakes I guess kinda.
That’s lovecraft.
I’m his biggest fan. I spent $1000 to have a custome mistkatonic university ring made. Love his work. Not a great writer and also racist in the phobia sense not the “I’m better” sense. He legitimately fears Irish people and their witchcraft.
Dude had flaws and I akeowledge that.
It also doesn’t help that Lovecraft was at the tail end of an old style of writing while in many ways being a forerunner of a newer style. Makes his works kinda clunky if that makes sense, like I get the same feeling from Mark Twain for example. So the tedium probably comes from being not quite old not quite modern where it just ends up awkward, also tack on the fact he was revolutionizing suspense in a lot of ways and yeah… Not fun.
I lovve lovecraft but that’s his fault to. He was antiquated even for the time.
It’s like if I said “that thine would harketh onto me this fortnight”
Yeah my weird talking is holding me back. That’s my fault no one asked me to do that.
He was old fashioned even for his day. That was his choice.