Not by the Direct Method.

Quotes and thoughts I lack the time or energy to pursue more fully and turn into proper blog posts.

Title taken from Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians:

"It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined. He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little bucket, which will bring up to the light of day some characteristic specimen, from those far depths, to be examined with a careful curiosity."

13 April 2012
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- golden age
- lovecraft
from Fawcett’s Master Comics #45, Dec 1943. The “Balbo the Boy Magician” story, writer unknown. #lovecraft

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Leave Cthulu out of this Evil Benjamin Franklin!
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that’s what I’m talkin about!!
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i like the little quotes around it, like he’s gotta make sure we know he’s just summoning cthulhu ironically
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