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Squidzbusterson t1_j47quzo wrote

There are three things I remember about the mountains of madness.

The first half puts me to sleep

Lovecraft hates penguins

and he's terrified of trains for some reason

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_kahteh t1_j48e60f wrote

In fairness, Lovecraft was terrified of about 99% of everything

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BlooMeeni t1_j48epu8 wrote

He's gotta tell u something is scary otherwise how would u know to be scared? Nah on the real I love mountains of madness

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ruby_the_peep t1_j48vxq6 wrote

Specially about foreigner people

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DeadFishCRO t1_j4a9p1h wrote

Love his works but find it funny that everyone who is not a north west European protestant is a idiotic degenerate cultist. I don't think Slavs like me were even considered white by Americans at the time he was writing.

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gw2master t1_j48ndj1 wrote

> Lovecraft hates penguins

The funny thing is, so did Herman Melville:

> Let us first glance low down to the lowermost shelf of all, which is the widest, too, and but a little space from high-water mark. What outlandish beings are these? Erect as men, but hardly as symmetrical, they stand all round the rock like sculptured caryatides, supporting the next range of eaves above. Their bodies are grotesquely misshapen, their bills short, their feet seemingly legless; while the members at their sides are neither fin, wing, nor arm. And truly neither fish, flesh, nor fowl is the penguin; as an edible, pertaining neither to Carnival nor Lent; without exception the most ambiguous and least lovely creature yet discovered by man. Though dabbling in all three elements, and indeed possessing some rudimental claims to all, the penguin is at home in none. On land it stumps; afloat it sculls; in the air it flops. As if ashamed of her failure, Nature keeps this ungainly child hidden away at the ends of the earth, in the Straits of Magellan, and on the abased sea-story of Rodondo.

from his The Encantadas (bunch of short stories/sketches about the Galapagos: pretty easy reading for Melville... also, easily found online for free as it's public domain).

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False_Creek t1_j48ozdv wrote

Being confused by which catholic holiday allows you to eat an animal you've just discovered is peak European energy.

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