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Selections From H.P. Lovecraft’s Brief Tenure as a Whitman’s
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EmmaPeelWannaBe
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Have a second bowl for breakie everyday in my eldritch house
Goths have feelings too
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Johnny Rev 7.0
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Not sure if Emma's being serious... but I'm sure there's a shed-load of people who never realised it is an adjective in the English language.
But he's not a Goth.
But he's not a Goth.
What a season
to be beautiful
without a reason
to be beautiful
without a reason
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His nut clusters haven't always been ancient.
Well you must know something
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
'Cos we're dying of admiration here
Mastering obscure alternatives
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EmmaPeelWannaBe
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million voices wrote:His nut clusters haven't always been ancient.
That's right, and HP Lovecraft uses the word quite a few times in his stories... which is where Eldo most likely got the word from.Johnny Rev 7.0 wrote:Not sure if Emma's being serious... but I'm sure there's a shed-load of people who never realised it is an adjective in the English language.
Definitely not a goth, and he never read Lovecraft, and he never wore a goth hat.But he's not a Goth.
Actually it's Scottish 
according to this source http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/ ... ritch.html
according to this source http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/ScotLit/ASLS/ ... ritch.html
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'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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Scottish, yes. I was referencing into an early fall song, lay of the land, btw
Never mind.
Never mind.
Goths have feelings too
I realise now that your rhyme was a scottish lyric too 
Great that seems to be the origin.
Great that seems to be the origin.
'Are we the Baddies?'...
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
"Someday! Someday, everything you need, is just gonna fall out of the sky..." -A.E. Reading 1991
"Don't forget that most of the judges in witches trials had harvard degrees."
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I got it even no one else didpaint it black wrote:Scottish, yes. I was referencing into an early fall song, lay of the land, btw
Never mind.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
—Bertrand Russell
—Bertrand Russell
Nah, he got it from Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. Maybe Dick got it from Lovecraft.Dan wrote:That's right, and HP Lovecraft uses the word quite a few times in his stories... which is where Eldo most likely got the word from.
Any more of that and we'll be round your front door with the quick-setting whitewash and the shaved monkey.