The Call of Cthulhu (and Mathematical Reality)
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Without straying too far from the original topic, matters such as the
\u201cIdentity\u201d and \u201cBeauty,\u201d and \u201cColor\u201d would all drive Lovecraft\u2019s characters
\u201cmad\u201d if they saw them all to be cherished illusions.
Hodgson, Merritt and Lovecraft all wrote classics of imaginative fiction. When
we read them should we add thoughts from experience of the present day to
reinterpret what these
masters wrote? And is the failure to do so, \u201cmadness\u201d? As an English professor
once stated in one of my classes, \u201cNasty words do not create a nasty
situation.\u201d Does Lovecraft's use of, "loathsomely," "soaked perversions," or "mad grotesqueness" really add anything meaningful beyond another one half cent? If not, then do they add up to a convincing narrative?
Further, Lovecraft (for all all of his erudition derived from autodidact learning) might in the use of these words be revealing a certain neurasthenia when contemplating the Old Ones - their conceptual capacities go far beyond those which humans are capable; and that experience "shook" human confidence in our "smugness of superiority" - an unallowed experience Lovecraft found "loathsome." For a dramatization of these effects see the silent film, The Call of Cthulhu, (HPLHS Production), where the reactions of the actors to events are expressed in the facial expressions of the actors and the musical soundtrack; these expressions of surpassing varieties of emotions of horror and repugnance may be beyond those present day viewers are capable. Especially interesting are the expressions of exhaustion of the capacity to experience what their world had to offer, with the congruent desire to withdraw into seclusion - akin to the "institutionalization" experienced by hospitalization or incarceration. Lovecraft did live alone (rarely mentioning others living with him); did he experience a kind of institutionalization, ascribed to the Old Ones lurking underground?
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