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  • HP Lovecraft and the Myth of the Golden Age <p>I started reading H.P. Lovecraft again after a break from his work of far too many years. Specifically, I re-read Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, one of the Randolph Carter cycle. The story itself was published posthumously and HPL intended it as nothing more than a writing exercise. It was never a finished work. Regardless – or perhaps because – of this, it highlights the central themes in all of Lovecraft’s writing, Progress and the Myth of the Golden Age.</p> <p>Lovecraft struggles to reconcile the ideas of progress, that science and technology […]</p>

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    Posted on 30 April, 2010 | 1 Comment
    HP Lovecraft and the Myth of the Golden Age

    I started reading H.P. Lovecraft again after a break from his work of far too many years. Specifically, I re-read Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, one of the Randolph Carter cycle. The story itself was published posthumously and HPL intended it as nothing more than a writing exercise. It was never a finished work. Regardless – or perhaps because – of this, it highlights the central themes in all of Lovecraft’s writing, Progress and the Myth of the Golden Age.

    Lovecraft struggles to reconcile the ideas of progress, that science and technology […]

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