AEG: Is AEG Lovecraftian?

Matthew Keeley · 05 Nov 2008, 17:16 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com (Matthew Keeley)
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 12:16:41 -0500
Subject: (urth) AEG: Is AEG Lovecraftian?
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Stanis?aw Bocian <sbocian at poczta.fm> wrote:
>
> In Machen, the civilisation is threatened by Evil, supernatural evil
> directed by destructive and hostile forces. Those forces are
> dangerous, but can be repulsed, although not destroyed. In Lovecraft
> there is no evil as such. The civilisation is threatened by
> dissolution, from without (primitive Negroes, Polacks and similar aliens
> dragging down American cities) and from within (progress of science,
> which refutes the basic rules on which the civilisation is built).

The thing about Lovecraft and race is that his personal life seems to
belie some of his writing. Remember that he married a Ukrainian Jew.
Strange fellow, Lovecraft.

Really good analysis there - it makes me want to go back and read more HPL.

-Matt

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