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In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming

In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulu waits dreaming

H. P. Lovecraft
Dream, House, Waiting
"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft, 1926.

Everything I loved had been dead for two centuries - or, as in the case of Graeco-Roman classicism, for two milenniums. I am never a part of anything around me - in everything I am an outsider. Should I find it possible to crawl backward through the Halls of Time to that age which is nearest my own fancy, I should doubtless be bawled out of the coffee-houses for heresy in religion, or else lampooned by John Dennis till I found refuge in the deep, silent Thames, that covers many another unfortunate.

H. P. Lovecraft
Coffee, Two, House
Letter to "The Keicomolo" - Kleiner, Cole, and Moe (October 1916), in "Selected Letters I, 1911-1924" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (p. 27), 1964.

Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange background of multi-dimensional reality behind the ghoulish hints of Gothic tales and the wild whispers of the chimney-corner, one can hardly expect to be wholly free from mental tension. (Dreams In The Witch-House)

H. P. Lovecraft
Dream, Reality, House
H. P. Lovecraft (2017). “Dreams in the Witch House”, p.3, BookRix

Sometimes one feels that it would be merciful to tear down these houses, for they must often dream.

H. P. Lovecraft
Dream, House, Tears
H.P. Lovecraft (2002). “Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft”, p.21, Del Rey

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