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the opposition between the quotidian and the numinous
Lovecraft’s descriptions do not allow the reader to synthesise the logorrheic schizophony of adjectives into a mental image
The weird, by contrast, is notable for the way in which it opens up an egress between this world and others
among the abattoirs and charnel houses from which scientist Victor Frankenstein scavenges body parts