Wilde, "I live in terror of not being misunderstood. To trace the remote in the immediate the eternal in the ephemeral the past in the present the infinite in the finite these are to me the springs of delight and beauty. Pleasure to me is wonder-the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background. It is man's relation to the cosmos-to the unknown-which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work and they are enough. 53Ĭontesto: The opinions of the masses are of no interest to me, for praise can truly gratify only when it comes from a mind sharing the author's perspective. E probabilmente, nessuno, tanto meno gli. Lovecraft e pubblicato due anni dopo da Weird Tales, nel Febbraio 1928. Col senno di poi, si potrebbe dedurre, in perfetto stile lovecraftiano. "The Defence Remains Open!" (April 1921), published in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. Il Richiamo di Cthulhu (The Call of Cthulhu) è un titolo impegnativo.
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