recommended reading
I've finally gotten around to reading some H. P. Lovecraft over the past few weeks. It's pretty enjoyable and one of my goals is to eventually read all of his works.
I recently read The Silver Key and like a lot of his stories it kind of ties in to some other ones I haven't read yet. It stands well on its own though and despite its shortness is full of some really interesting writing:
"Once in a while, though, he could not help seeing how shallow, fickle, and meaningless all human aspirations are, and how emptily our real impulses contrast with those pompous ideals we profess to hold. Then he would have recourse to the polite laughter they had taught him to use against the extravagance and artificiality of dreams; for he saw that the daily life of our world is every inch as extravagant and artificial, and far less worthy of respect because of its poverty in beauty and its silly reluctance to admit its own lack of reason and purpose. In this way he became a kind of humorist, for he did not see that even humour is empty in a mindless universe devoid of any true standard of consistency or inconsistency."
That's awesome.
(It kind of reflects cosmicism, apparently.)
I recently read The Silver Key and like a lot of his stories it kind of ties in to some other ones I haven't read yet. It stands well on its own though and despite its shortness is full of some really interesting writing:
"Once in a while, though, he could not help seeing how shallow, fickle, and meaningless all human aspirations are, and how emptily our real impulses contrast with those pompous ideals we profess to hold. Then he would have recourse to the polite laughter they had taught him to use against the extravagance and artificiality of dreams; for he saw that the daily life of our world is every inch as extravagant and artificial, and far less worthy of respect because of its poverty in beauty and its silly reluctance to admit its own lack of reason and purpose. In this way he became a kind of humorist, for he did not see that even humour is empty in a mindless universe devoid of any true standard of consistency or inconsistency."
That's awesome.
(It kind of reflects cosmicism, apparently.)