I want to express my fascination with Lovecraft’s tales.
Since I was a child anything that had relationship with the mysterious and unknown claimed in me the most impetuous sensation to inquire more and more until reach an denouement. Later I learned that not all in this universe has a clear answer and that despite the efforts of the science there are an infinity of issues that remain under a veil of ignorance and darkness.
An ambiguous sensation is claimed in the humans by these issues, on one side there is a desire of truth, the opportunity to know more about us and our universe, on the other side there is a fear towards the unknown, the feeling that our being can be easily destroyed with the simple fact of inquiring more.
Lovecraft’s tales explore this ambivalence of the human behavior, his characters are thrown towards situations that show how weak and small are the humans in the immeasurable universe. Some of his protagonists seek with fervent desire one answer to clarify their lives (The Alchemist), to find a reason to live, to get free of their prison, to find something beyond of their current existence (The outsider) or simply they are in the search of something more, their being requires the continuous exploring through the senses to satisfy itself (The Music of Erich Zann). On the other hand some Lovecraft’s tales express the idea that the characters would not like to live again the aberrant experience by way of which their destiny has been thrown (The Crawling Chaos), also there are tales that show the fear to talk about dire event, such as a kind of taboo, such as if the mention of the issue could invoke the catastrophe (The Color out of Space). But no matter the particular motivations of each protagonists, at the end, all experimented the fascination and terror of what the human mind ignores, even getting to know of what has resisted since of begin of the time, called by Lovecraft a primordial horror (The call of Cthulhu, the nameless city).
For me the fear is the original feeling, for example, before to know the love we knew the fear, because love is to feel safe, and to feel safe is know our environment, but always is first the lack of knowledge that the wisdom, first is necessary to experiment to have a first impression, if there is not experimentation much less can exists an impression. Lovecraft could transmit this feelings with few words, a simple paragraph could demonstrate easily this sensations, for this reason I am fascinated with Lovecraft’s tales.
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