to all the people defending lovecraft in the quote retweets: he would've died from an embolism if a tan italian person so much as looked at him. he was terrified of non-anglo cultures and find-and-replaced "immigrants" with "weird fish people". he lived a bitch and died a bitch
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He also declared himself a proud anti-Semite at one point and then married a Jewish woman and had a Jewish best friend. The guy had his phases.
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There's an interesting disconnect I've found in a lot of people where they understand that a shitty life can lead to great art, and that a shitty life can make a shitty person; but they can't conceive of a shitty person making great art.