A Color Out of Space and Lovecraftian High Weirdness
Philosophers In Space
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The Existential Dread of Materialism
"It's useful as a tool for talking about sort of implicit or explicit racism in various ways like i think it's valuable to talk about the fact that we do have this fear of the other" " Lovecraft is obsessed with these arch stories right these grand narratives but also is this kind of materialist so we can't really buy into them entirely um he sees them as like a bygone thing," she says. 'We get incomprehensible entities pretty straightforward here forbidden knowledge and non-uclidian geometries and unnatural phenomena'"'I'm curious what do you think of us,' one character asks another, before going on to say: 'i've never been able to stop looking at your eyes
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