Episode 29: On Lovecraft
Weird Studies
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The Strange and Brooding Apprehension of Hideous Physical Danger
A passage in David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest that to me is like the most brilliant putting into words of such a nameless apprehension a nameless terror. "It was as if a large dark billowing shape came billowing out of some corner of my mind I can be no more precise than to say large dark shape and billowing what came flapping out of some backwater of my psyche" A line from Lovecraft where he describes terrible phantasms of the night being so over the top and juicy but yet it communicates something very specific to him. He says when he gets depressed, his nights become choked with this nameless dread of hideous physical danger which eludes representation
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