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Bradley's avatar

This is absolutely amazing work. Herculean lift here. I see you, brother. The traditional (and less helpful) context for analyzing these writers schema would be along some timeline of epoch “emergent modern” “high modern” “postmodern” but your approach throws that out the window in favor of proper first principles observations at the level of psyche. Really excellent. Please keep digging this vein.

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Tbergman's avatar

While working through this phase, may I suggest you add Conan the Barbarian (Howard) to your reading list? Howard and Lovecraft were lifelong friends and penpals, exploring the horror of their times from different angles. Reading your Theory, it may be that Howard is a more appropriate metaphor (thinking specifically of red nails here, but they're all of a piece).

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