I haven't linked this guy often enough yet.
oh by the way
fun fact
HP Lovecraft is a HUGE FAN OF ADJECTIVES
the more syllables the better
sometimes it can make reading his writing very difficult
but luckily i discovered a trick
which is that you can replace almost every single one of his adjectives
with "spooky"
without any loss of meaning
let's try it on one of the paragraphs from the sailor's account!
AHEM:"I suppose that only a single mountain-top, the spooky, spooky citadel whereon spooky Cthulu was buried, actually emerged from the waters... Johansen and his men were awed by the spooky majesty of this spooky Babylon of spooky demons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or any other sane planet. Awe at the spooky size of the spooky stone blocks, at the spooky height of the spooky, spooky monolith, and at the spooky identity of the spooky statues and bas-reliefs with the spooky image found in the shrine on the Alert, is spookily visible in every line of the mate's spooky description."
SEE?
now just delete every instance of the word "spooky"
and watch this paragraph magically transform into PRETTY GOOD WRITING
but anyway
- from "Boats: An Elder God's Only Weakness"
fun fact
HP Lovecraft is a HUGE FAN OF ADJECTIVES
the more syllables the better
sometimes it can make reading his writing very difficult
but luckily i discovered a trick
which is that you can replace almost every single one of his adjectives
with "spooky"
without any loss of meaning
let's try it on one of the paragraphs from the sailor's account!
AHEM:"I suppose that only a single mountain-top, the spooky, spooky citadel whereon spooky Cthulu was buried, actually emerged from the waters... Johansen and his men were awed by the spooky majesty of this spooky Babylon of spooky demons, and must have guessed without guidance that it was nothing of this or any other sane planet. Awe at the spooky size of the spooky stone blocks, at the spooky height of the spooky, spooky monolith, and at the spooky identity of the spooky statues and bas-reliefs with the spooky image found in the shrine on the Alert, is spookily visible in every line of the mate's spooky description."
SEE?
now just delete every instance of the word "spooky"
and watch this paragraph magically transform into PRETTY GOOD WRITING
but anyway
- from "Boats: An Elder God's Only Weakness"