“All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.” H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Weird Tales’ Farnsworth Wright, dated July 5, 1927. As quoted in S. T. Joshi’s introduction to Black Wings of Cthulhu…
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Just finished reading Robert Graves’ I, Claudius. What struck me through the book is how much of it is written as “Tell” (telling the reader what happened, as you would to a friend over the dinner table) and not “Show” (making the reader live the characters’ actions, by multiplying elements…
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