Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Lovecraft and Religion: An Online Essay

Chrispy does not know Klinghoffer, but his essay mentions HPL at length in a religious context.
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... an author I enjoy, a committed Darwinist and atheist -- H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) -- allows us to contemplate. In his terrifically imaginative horror stories, most set in a spooky, antiquated New England, the great theme is that humanity is but a tiny, unimportant speck in an unimaginably vast universe that has cast up innumerable varieties of extraterrestrial beings, some of which have colonized our planet.

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2 comments:

priscian said...

P. Z. Myers thinks that Klinghoffer will be eaten last.

Chris Perridas said...

:)

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