Canon Fodder

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Jess Nevins asks: Does H. P. Lovecraft belong in the canon?

Comments

[laughingrat]

Haha, yeah. The invisibility, was it really that bad everywhere tho? But then, as you say, nobody gets rescued. It's not that kind of writing. And he was possibly weird about sex, personally anyway, so it's not like he'd necessarily want to write about anything to do with romance?

I don't mind the prose, even though it's hard to wade through. Like the critic, I feel like the stilted language actually makes the weird stuff weirder, like the words are trying to pretend that everything's normal and rational and okay, which highlights just how alarming the events are.