@0x49fa98 in reading Lovecraft, I’ve noticed that one of his go-to tropes is ‘It was so horrible I can’t even describe it.’
Is it genius or an easy cop-out? I actually can’t decide.
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+ the idea of "horror indescribable" is a strict literary innovation and encapsulation of a real (and paradoxically, a describable) phenomenon. E.g., trying to communicate object permanence to an infant. Merely to understand the concept requires a transformation of the child
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Transcendence from one state of horror to the next implies a more than mundane evil, and LC was precisely tuned to the frequency of ultimate and infinite evil. Spent his entire career giving masks and avatars to the various appendages of this one eternal Thing.
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