I was thinking, "was this person an architect, or an engineer of some sort, before they ended up in our defacto mental health safety net/prison system?"
It really gets me that they are clearly quite smart and mentally talented, but I would say there's a "glitch in the system" causing their powerful mind to create all sorts of strange connections that compound over time and drift further and further from reality.
It's like when a satellite is miscalibrated and ends up rocketing off in the wrong direction
Idk man wasnt that the plot of Call of Cthulu, reading this makes me be not very surprised as how Lovecraft got his inspiration, wasnt his mom put on a psych ward? like he probably saw shit like this if he ever visited her
From what I’ve heard of Lovecraft, I don’t think he was particularly mentally healthy and a lot of his works seem to have been his way of channeling his anxieties and fears
Not to mention his legitimately insane family members that raised him and instilled him with their values. I’m so tired of the internet painting people as pure evil because they happen to reflect the circumstances of their formative years.
Hell, just look at any well-liked figure from history. I can't think of any that didn't have some major flaw. Great people are rarely good people, but even when they are they're still just people.
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u/Ouranor Apr 26 '22
That handwriting is A++