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A while ago I went back to revisit of one my favourites authors, H.P. Lovecraft, even after swallowing blackpill, my enjoyment of his work hasn't changed. In this thread, I want to explore the themes and tropes of short story (just 10 pages) titled The Outsider. I think this story takes unique position among other Lovecraft's works for a few reasons.
The first important reason: narrative breaks away from typical lovecraftian heroes. The Titular Outsider take place of rationalists, sceptics and other man of science that are found in other Lovecraft's work. The other reason, the usual shocking relvelation, the common trope in author's writing, comes from within. Our hero doesn't come to contact with eldritch being that shatters his rational worldview and leaves him with insanity. He learns truth about himself.
The narrator of The Outsider is the main hero, He tells of his years of isolation and loneliness in a dark, decrepit castle, that he remembers ever since he was born. He is alone, he never knew anybody else beside himself. The only source of knowledge he has are old books found in his castle, from which he learns about others. The trees are so lush and tall that they blackend the sky and block the sunlight. However, there is one ruined tower tall enough to tower over the trees, but, as our hero notes, climibng it is a dauntless task. As he makes his way out of his prison, he finds another castle full of people, partying toghther. As he makes his entrance people flee from terror. It's here where he learn the truth, that it's his hideous, ghoulish appearence that made others terrefied.
I think many incels will related to lonliness and alienation that the Outsider experiences. The way he fantasizes about better life and of sharing life with others. The dark castle of the Outsider can also be used to symbolizes Inceldom. The state of dreadful loneliness and feeling of not fitting in society. Likewise, the Tower can represent the struggles of incels trying to escape inceldom - long, sisyphean struggle that you're alone in. And the finale. We can interpret this literally that our main hero became something monsterous, something less than a human. We can also see this as metaphor for being ugly, at how others judge you for it and don't want to associate with you, beacause of it. We see how he tries to hold to his bluepill by looking for something else that made people terrified. How he struggles with accepting blackpill and how he eventaully starts to cope.
One line especially stuck in my mind:
The first important reason: narrative breaks away from typical lovecraftian heroes. The Titular Outsider take place of rationalists, sceptics and other man of science that are found in other Lovecraft's work. The other reason, the usual shocking relvelation, the common trope in author's writing, comes from within. Our hero doesn't come to contact with eldritch being that shatters his rational worldview and leaves him with insanity. He learns truth about himself.
The narrator of The Outsider is the main hero, He tells of his years of isolation and loneliness in a dark, decrepit castle, that he remembers ever since he was born. He is alone, he never knew anybody else beside himself. The only source of knowledge he has are old books found in his castle, from which he learns about others. The trees are so lush and tall that they blackend the sky and block the sunlight. However, there is one ruined tower tall enough to tower over the trees, but, as our hero notes, climibng it is a dauntless task. As he makes his way out of his prison, he finds another castle full of people, partying toghther. As he makes his entrance people flee from terror. It's here where he learn the truth, that it's his hideous, ghoulish appearence that made others terrefied.
I think many incels will related to lonliness and alienation that the Outsider experiences. The way he fantasizes about better life and of sharing life with others. The dark castle of the Outsider can also be used to symbolizes Inceldom. The state of dreadful loneliness and feeling of not fitting in society. Likewise, the Tower can represent the struggles of incels trying to escape inceldom - long, sisyphean struggle that you're alone in. And the finale. We can interpret this literally that our main hero became something monsterous, something less than a human. We can also see this as metaphor for being ugly, at how others judge you for it and don't want to associate with you, beacause of it. We see how he tries to hold to his bluepill by looking for something else that made people terrified. How he struggles with accepting blackpill and how he eventaully starts to cope.
One line especially stuck in my mind:
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
General notes on Lovecraft's writing:
Without hesitation I can recommend Lovecraft. Romance and love subplots are usually hard for me to get through and sometimes even discourge me from reading. Thankfully Lovecraft fiction has none of it. It's a conscious decision of Lovecraft to not make it part of his aesthetic. Loner from Providence also represent world in his fiction as uncaring place, full of power that are best uninterested in human wellbeing. This will resonate with many here that view the suffering in this world as unecessary and pointlessly cruel.At the end I need to add that ehtnicels might not like the writing of Lovecraft's due to his unapologetically low opinion on non-white people. Those usually range form remarks about primitivnes and superstition of blacks to themes of racial miscegenation, that turn humans that breed with lower races into human mockery resembling an animal. I undoubtedly enjoy this part of Lovecraft, seening at how popular his is now and how uneasy NPCs and (((elites))) are with his views.