Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article:  Gray, John (October 24, 2014), H.P. Lovecraft Invented a Horrific World to Escape a Nihilistic Universe, New Republic, Retrieved on 2015-11-30
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    30 NOV 2015

     Lovecraft's Mythos Denies Humanity Rather than Upholds It

    The weird realism that runs through his writings undermines any belief system—religious or humanist—in which the human mind is the center of the universe. There is a tendency nowadays to think of the world in which we live as an artefact of mind or language: a human construction. For Lovecraft, human beings are too feeble to shape a coherent view of the universe. Our minds are specks tossed about in the cosmic melee; though we look for secure foundations, we live in perpetual free fall. With ...
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