I read that because I watched the movie on Netflix at some point. I enjoyed it at the time but it's entirely forgettable. As in I literally cannot remember the first thing about it.
Naked Lunch is both pretentious and degenerate at the same time and is difficult for the sake of being difficult. 0/10.
Let's not forget that he was massively xenophobic and mentally ill and somehow it's not all comically racist.
I don't see that as particularly racist. It's a black cat with a silly name. It's not that far removed from the siamese cats in Lady and the Tramp, or a dolphin called "Flipper".
In the original Shadows Over Innsmouth story there's a lot of talk about racially impure people etc, if i remember correctly he attributes the fish people's ugly faces to them probably being inbred foreigners. Then there's the story with the german in the submarine one which I recall had some talk of Aryan superiority. It's generally not big stuff or even stuff I care about. Lovecraft being racist doesn't bother me, but he was definitely racist.
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We've argued over whether literature is good or not before but I'd actually agree with all of these, since they're mainly tiresome political treatises (though some are far more extreme than others - I wouldn't put Dawkins in with Hitler and Che Guevara) rather than works with any real artistic or literary merit. I'd also add Sartre, De Beauvoir, and other French communists to that list, along with anything by Julius "rape should be legal and fascism wasn't extreme enough" Evola.
In The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the Ward family's "venerable black cat" was named Nig
I'm unfortunately going to double down on the Tolstoy hatred. I've read huge sections of War and Peace and remember very little from them, because most of the first part just wasn't enjoyable. The book is rifle with his Narodnism which often comes off as signalling more than anything else. I'll spoiler the rest in case people haven't read it:
You could add "The Prince", "The Art of War", and "The Book of Five Rings" to the list too. All big with people looking for the Konami Code to life.The 48 laws of power
Glad you mentioned this. Someone earlier said HP’s parents named his cat. They literally couldn’t have because his dad was dead by then and his mom might have been dead by then too I’m pretty sure and besides that he wasn’t even talking to his mother by that point.In The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, the Ward family's "venerable black cat" was named Nig
Lovecraft was racist in the way most people were racist then; non-whites weren't hate-inducing (unless they were super degraded, and then it was more reflexive, atavistic physical revulsion). They were just inferior, that's how things were, proceed with your life. No need to get all hot and bothered about it. Except when their ancient eldritch horror cults snag an intelligent, sensitive white man like HP Lovecraftand rape himmanipulate him into using his superior Caucasianness to summon amoral cosmic entities
Early psychologists were shocked at how much child abuse they uncovered from middle class patients. The matter was not discussed enough back then. Jimmy Savile got away with a whole career of abuse covered up by the BBC decades later.
Sam Harris said:
I eas listening to an audiobook course about greek myths one time and not long after the intro the professor actually went out of her way to calk campbell out and sperg a bit about how its not real antrhopology and is mostly speculative fiction. Apparently he has a lot of people in that field who have a bone to pick with him.
