Today’s offering is a slightly-larger-than-A4 sized Lovecaftian ouija board which I acquired scant days ago. I am rather fond of such curiosities (I currently possess three mythos-themed boards) - despite their existence (like that of Lovecraftian tarot cards) being something of an affront to the central materialistic conceits of the ‘canonical’ Lovecaftian universe; indeed, an issue I havevlong hand with contemporary occultism is the lack of imagination it seems to have when it comes to occulturing Lovecraft, always trying to crowbar something wholly alien and unknowable into extant, all-too terrestrial and anthropocentric esoteric traditions. Ligotti’s tale ‘The Spectacles in the Drawer’ is instructive is this regard.
This will probably end up being mounted on one of the walls of my study - a reminder of the seemingly-limitless expanse of the field of human folly.
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