One of the themes often appearing in the writer’s. That is personality and individuality and self-respect - the calm mastery of a being whose life is its own and not yours - and the superior person recognises and appreciates this because he too is a free soul whose position is assured, and whose only law is his own heritage and aesthetic sense. Lovecraft allows us to get to know a big part of his universe’s lore the history of the Great Race of Yith. The cat, on the other hand, charms you into playing for its benefit when it wishes to be amused making you rush about the room with a paper on a string when it feels like exercise, but refusing all your attempts to make it play when it is not in the humour. That pleases a meekness-loving peasant who relishes a stimulus to his self importance. Lovecraft Winterfreshest 246 subscribers Subscribe 0 Share No views 1 minute ago Rounding out our month of Lovecraft stories is a wonderful short story called 'Memory'. The dog barks and begs and tumbles to amuse you when you crack the whip. And just as inferior people prefer the inferior animal which scampers excitedly because someone else wants something, so do superior people respect the superior animal which lives its own life and knows that the puerile stick-throwings of alien bipeds are none of its business and beneath its notice. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement. “Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and stumbles to bring it to you. This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail.
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