Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vine-encumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Such a lot the gods gave to me - to me, the dazed, the disappointed; the barren, the broken. And yet I am strangely content and cling desperately to those sere memories, when my mind momentarily threatens to reach beyond to the other.
H.P. LovecraftFor I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming...
H.P. LovecraftTags: thinking dreams dreamers
I like coffee exceedingly...
H.P. LovecraftŽijeme naše životy na malém ostrůvku zaslepenosti, bez povědomí o temných oceánech nekonečna okolo nás.
Neměli bychom se snažit příliš rozhlížet.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Prime emphasis should be given to subtle suggestion - imperceptible hints and touches of selective associative detail which express shadings of mood and build up a vague illusion of the strange reality of the unreal. Avoid bald catalogues of incredible happenings which can have no substance or meaning apart from a sustaining cloud of colour and symbolism.
H.P. LovecraftTags: advice fiction subtlety weird-fiction
While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.
H.P. LovecraftTags: fantasy wonder fiction lovecraft escapism weird-fiction
Damn it, it wasn’t quite fresh enough!
H.P. LovecraftTags: horror
But of these things I must not now speak. I will tell only of the lone tomb in the darkest of the hillside thickets.
H.P. LovecraftPoiché univa all'immaginazione la metodicità scientifica, era conscio del fatto che l'uomo moderno, quando non esistono leggi, tende costantemente a sfogare gli istinti più tenebrosi, che risalgono ai nostri scimmieschi, primitivi antenati, nella vita ordinaria, e nelle manifestazioni di culto.
H.P. LovecraftIn search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,
But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!
Tags: truth knowledge poetry sadness despair
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