My claim to fame was a... «I Am Providence»
RamingoWS5 июля 2018My claim to fame was a single book published by a small press. You`ve probably never heard of it, and don`t mean that in an arch, hipsterish sort of way. My book was a literary mash-up of the sort that was popular some years ago called The Catcher in R`lyeh. Salinger`s protagonists and Lovecraft`s had a lot in common. They tended to be bookish intellectuals, and were often driven mad thanks to their encounter with the ineffable. Bananafish, Deep Ones, just squint and they`ll look alike. The authors were mirror images to one another, both recluses with cults of personality. Lovecraft, the anti-Semite, was briefly married to a Jew. Salinger, the Jew, was once married to a Nazi. Close enough to alike for me to combine via nucleic exchange, and to integrate me into the small but intense community of Lovecraftians — writers, fans, collectors, obsessives, and even the occasional religious entrepreneur looking to graft Lovecraft`s squamous and cyclopean imagery onto a vaguely Satanic nihilism.
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