Lovecraft Country: Racism is the Real Monster (And Also There are Monsters)

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Collateral: Feb 17, 2010

That Italian Guy posted:

^^^ They look very similar.

I wonder if we have ourselves a Shadow Over Innsmouth situation with Atticus's heritage

Letitia's brother mentioned a "witch" was killed for fornicating with the devil who appeared to her a negro man. This is a reference to his mother's family. He wasn't the devil.

Some notes: Lovecraft and Kafka share a lot of DNA in that they were products of their times, germ theory was real but antibiotics were not, so sanitary education was serve. The bar dude getting a bj out back was a reference to James Baldwin right? That speech was good, shame about the audience.

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Collateral: Feb 17, 2010

AtraMorS posted:

I mean, Baldwin was gay. I'm not sure how you get from there to back-alley blowjobs but I guess he could be? He didn't look anything like him though.

The audience for that speech decided in Baldwin's favor, incidentally. Standing ovation and everything. It's hosed up though (or at least it's always looked this way to me), because if you watch it there's a split-second when Baldwin is sitting down and everyone else is rising to their feet at once, and he's loving terrified of what these white people are about to do.

Anyway, although I have not read the book, I kinda feel like the ending of the pin-drop speech will turn out to be a pretty heavy bit of foreshadowing:

They look the similar, that's all.

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Collateral: Feb 17, 2010

Yeah, on reflection, that was dumb.

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