Episode 4: Exploring the Weird with Erik Davis
Weird Studies
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The Paranoia of Lovecraft
"I am in a world of asymmetrical information. Like I can't tell what the intelligences are or what the entities are that are breaking in from whatever outside," he says. "He's almost sort of like a, like a hard boiled detective or something, a gumshoe who's picking up clues and trying to stitch them together." The classic Philip K. Dick hero is put in an extraordinary situation where he has to kind of follow the clues. He has to try and act in a incomprehensible universe based on very incomplete information.
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