It’s absolutely necessary. The unknown is far more terrifying than the known. It’s not that he couldn’t come up with a horrible thing, it’s that not knowing /is/ a horrible thing, one of the worst.
@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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Some may claim that all manifestations of fear are simply manifestations of the unknown.
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Graham Harman wrote a book called “Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy.” Attaching a couple of pages from the introduction.pic.twitter.com/oYUwC2y2pp
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