Badmike wrote: I wouldn't move to Cross Plains for free room and board and a visit from the Pusscat Dolls every weekend....
Mike B.
I think you'd manage to find time to take a room.
I've enjoyed Lovecraft's work, but I have often doubted that I would have liked him as a person. Can you think of a single Lovecraft
character that you would have liked had you met him? (I mean, aside from Yog Sothoth...)
Lovecraft was probably better at a distance...without the unendurable agony of human social contact.
Out here on the edge of the Western World I sometimes feel like Howard must have felt. Imagine having the scope of knowledge and interests that REH obviously enjoyed but having no one to talk to about all of it....
Howard's anger at the world...so evident in his poetry...was the anger of an outsider looking in at a world he actually longed to join. (my opinion)
Had Howard survived his mother's death he might have left Texas...and then who knows....?
Mark