Secluded Sycamore
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PhD in literature; Editor of “Lovecraftian Proceedings”; horror, Academia without borders, East Anglia
Cambridge, UK
Joined October 2024
Happy Birthday, Old Gent.
On Lovecraft’s 135th birthday, it’s essential to remind ourselves that we can love* and appreciate Lovecraft’s works not for the sake of “lore” (whatever this means now), not because of his growing circle of talented contemporaries and friends 1/1.
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The necessary assets that enable a society to engage in produdu
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Woke up this morning; it’s drizzling, and the weather is a bit dull, which I adore: a nice break from the heatwave. It’s been 13 years since I arrived in this country: things that were so alien then feel so familiar now. Love you, my Stepmotherland And thank you for everything.
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Все возможно, когда ты пиздишь.
Over three million citations, an h-index approaching 1,700 and many 2025 papers that have been cited over 1,000 times. Can this be legitimate?. (archived at
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#ThePinchofSaltPath.Don’t you dare to take my grumbling from me 🤣.“Ms Winn’s moan-fest sold 2m and was translated into 25 languages. Its message: you too could be redeemed by nature, even if you find it annoying.”.
economist.com
The truth will catch up with you, but will readers want to hear it?
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Jesus wept! How dreadful 😞 I visited a lovely antique bookshop somewhere in the centre of Amsterdam earlier this summer, and it was a marvel.
Tragedy - and an ominous sign of these barbaric times. An Amsterdam antiquarian bookshop whose owner died years ago and whom I visited as a teen, was evicted a few days ago. The books went to the trash heap, in a garbage container outside the premises. Report from @volksvlijt
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RT @DrSamGeorge1: UNCANNY DOUBLES Life-sized Victorian style twin dolls unsettle tube travellers in London (c/o Darren Brown) #creepydolls….
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My new Precious from the Weird @BL_Publishing .subscription has landed, and it’s a gem: can’t wait to read it!
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Five days prior, but still: god only knows how I mixed up the dates 😀.
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without inserting too much prima facie in them.** in addition to his foul ideological beliefs, which started shifting at the end of his short life, but, sadly, never got a compelling reshuffle.***Which is ironic, given the fact that he was an atheist 1/8.
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__________.*If you are not afraid of the strong old words depicting your emotional state as a reader and even as a researcher: mind you, the least could be potentially punishable; as scholars, we are supposed to be sharply objective in our literary ramblings 1/7.
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havoc. The utter brilliance of Lovecraft is his almost religious and relentless commitment*** to curb our fear to be fearful, and he did it flawlessly. Happy heavenly (or not) birthday to him. 1/6.
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What is even more bizarre and fantastic is that he uses pretty much the same lingo all over again (which quickly became an object for endless mockery), while transgressing from mundane normality to the monstrous—and yes indeed, it’s fair to say, unimaginable and unnameable, 1/5.
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His comprehensive ability to depict the macabre, however drily at first, giving the reader a distorted impression of somewhat tedious narration that often is a sign of “safe” old-fashioned prose, just in time to plunge into hypno-suggestive elusiveness next. 1/4.
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he wasn’t the first who used Cosmicism as an active force in his art either. And, of course, he certainly was not the first whose legacy was tainted by the “paraliterature/pulp-fiction” label**. So, what is it about him then that makes him so special? 1/3.
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(or, at least, this could not be the main reason), but because of himself as an author. Lovecraft wasn’t the first writer who combined in his storytelling the elements of horror, fantasy and sci fi (which was actively developing at the time); 1/2.
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On Lovecraft’s 135th birthday, it’s essential to remind ourselves that we can love* and appreciate Lovecraft’s works not for the sake of “lore” (whatever this means now), not because of his growing circle of talented contemporaries and friends 1/1.
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RT @ClerkofOxford: Today is the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, known in medieval England as 'Our Lady Day in harvest'. An Ang….
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