{"id":779,"date":"2010-08-12T00:25:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2010-08-12T00:25:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T21:25:11","slug":"lovecraft-vs-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/12\/lovecraft-vs-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft vs.\u00a0Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"

H.P. Lovecraft and Ayn Rand — separated at birth? <\/p>\n\n\n
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H.P. Lovecraft:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Hardened rationalist <\/p>\n

\"\"Radical atheist<\/p>\n

\"\"Strong interest in philosophy<\/p>\n

\"\"Hard-headed sceptic<\/p>\n

\"\"Wrote for the masses<\/p>\n

\"\"Loved cinema<\/p>\n

\"\"Took inspiration from popular media<\/p>\n

\"\"Fascinated by science and men of science<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Exiled’ from England<\/p>\n

\"\"Loved cats<\/p>\n

\"\"Wrote science fiction<\/p>\n

\"\"Emotionally restrained protagonists<\/p>\n

\"\"Protagonists at odds with the established social order<\/p>\n

\"\"Fiction depicts lurking monstrosities that threaten humanity<\/p>\n

\"\"Author lived in\/near New York<\/p>\n

\"\"Felt that society\/civilisation was in sharp decline<\/p>\n

\"\"Disdain for ‘primitive’ ways of life<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Man is everything in the world’<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Man is insignificant in the cosmos’<\/p>\n

\"\"Yearned for an aristocracy based on manifest talent, not blood or race<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Ayn Rand:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Hardened rationalist <\/p>\n

\"\"Radical atheist<\/p>\n

\"\"Strong interest in philosophy<\/p>\n

\"\"Hard-headed sceptic<\/p>\n

\"\"Wrote for the masses<\/p>\n

\"\"Loved cinema<\/p>\n

\"\"Took inspiration from popular media<\/p>\n

\"\"Fascinated by science and men of science<\/p>\n

\"\"Exiled from Russia<\/p>\n

\"\"Loved cats<\/p>\n

\"\"Wrote science fiction<\/p>\n

\"\"Emotionally restrained protagonists<\/p>\n

\"\"Protagonists at odds with the established social order<\/p>\n

\"\"Fiction depicts lurking monstrosities that threaten humanity<\/p>\n

\"\"Author lived in\/near New York<\/p>\n

\"\"Felt that society\/civilisation was in sharp decline<\/p>\n

\"\"Disdain for ‘primitive’ ways of life<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Man is everything in the world’<\/p>\n

\"\"‘Man is insignificant in the cosmos’<\/p>\n

\"\"Yearned for an aristocracy based on manifest talent, not blood or race<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H.P. Lovecraft and Ayn Rand — separated at birth? H.P. Lovecraft: Hardened rationalist Radical atheist Strong interest in philosophy Hard-headed …<\/p>\n

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