The Legacy of Puritans

[tealin]

Mr Lovecraft reminds me of the thought Mr Schama placed in my head: that I need to study the Puritans more in order to better understand the U.S.

' ... the product of generations of pathetic Puritanism; kindly, conscientious, and sometimes gentle and amiable, yet always narrow, intolerant, custom-ridden, and lacking in perspective.'

~ From The Plague-Daemon

Unfortunately most Americans' familiarity with their Calvinist founders stops at the Grade 2 Thanksgiving Feast reenactment. Puritans ... they were the ones with the buckled hats and big white collars, right? You mean Pilgrims. They landed at Mayflower and had Thanksgiving and nine months later America was born. The end.

Ohhh, historical ignorance.

I promise there will be drawings tomorrow.

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

OK, I never made the connection between the missing kid and the boxer zombie ... You are not allowed to call yourself stupid in my presence ever again.

It's the cyclical nature of the stories (aside from the last one) that made me make the above sequence. Amusingly horrific. Or horrifically amusing.

Yes, Mr Lovecraft was an unabashed racist and xenophobe. Rather a shame. But he had quite an imagination.