essentialsaltes | Feb. 13th, 2009

Feb. 13th, 2009

It's almost hailing. The raindrops are making weird plitty-plinky noises on the window. Some of them are splatting, and some of them are bouncing off.

An HPL letter to CAS on ebay offers Lovecraft's opinion of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles appears to be a particular centre of emptiness & pretense—a nest of crazy cults & lopsided Babbitry & realtorism out of which nothing good can be expected for many mellowing generations...

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