Lovecraft being generally painted as a fundamentally epistemological writer-consider: protagonists as academics, the implicit objective being comprehension or understanding, lured into perspectivally conditioned encounters with cyclopean alien entities-(from the explorer-academic’s perspective, major, world-erupting/ irrupting/ corrupting from that of the ‘monster’ or monstrous being, minor, insignificant, think the classic we-are-to-them-as-ants-are-to-us trope that has been probably juiced a little too aggressively, if you ask some)-that failurelessly bear no (positive) cognitive or conceptual fruit, but rather a twisting mess of perceptual data that cannot be neatened and structured, madness, loss of doxastic direction, loss of objective value, loss of faith in religion, science, etc.
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