Was just handed (by the librarian who manages the Awesome Gigantic Monster Lovecraft Special Collection - & who rumor has it is a former CIA operative) the galley proofs of HP Lovecraft's Case of Charles Dexter Ward, for "processing". Lovecraft : 'nother horripilous RI scene-maker.

Poe/Crane/Lovecraft : avatars of literary abjection/perfection (cf. previous post).

But I've subsumed them - & I've got them beat on the abjection score (cf. Stubborn Grew) (cf. my sub-sub-life).

Dark moist November morning, not too cold. Lovecraft doing his Poe imitations over in Swan Point Cemetery. Must leave off chess & get back to Dove St. Peace & muttering, not war & gameboards.