1-18-08

[GreenPea]

Originally Posted by b.miller

What I find more interesting than his racism is his lack of any vice. From what I've read, he never drank or smoked opium or any of it. It's pretty damn hard to believe that given much of what he wrote.

Actually it makes a lot of sense to me, more than being straigth edge or whatever he was more than anything a loner and very conservative, someone that seems unconcerned with daily life and its pleasures or any sort of hedonism. Many of his main characters are loner antiquarians or people self absorved with esoteric affairs. I feel only a person like Lovecraft could have come up with this kind of stuff. His creations were a product of his social detachment and akwardness rather than drugs...