The Call of Cthulu – H.P. Lovecraft
By some horrendous luck, I have managed to live 32 years without having been exposed to H.P. Lovecraft. I can sense the more literary among you castigating me severely, and with what little information I have gathered in the last 10 minutes, I duly deserve it. But apparently that silly "I Write Like" website that's gone viral thinks that I write like Lovecraft. I had vaguely heard of his Cthulu character, most recently in an artwork by a truly amazing artist I initially discovered on Redbubble, David Lange. So I decided to take a glance at Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulu." The very first paragraph is absolutely fascinating.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
"To the Old Ones" - by David Lange
October 13th, 2010 - 17:48
Hey, me too! (at least on the third try.) My results, in order of what I submitted, were Dan Brown, Douglas Adams, and then H.P. Lovecraft. Two outta three ain’t bad.
Although I have the ambition to develop my writing skills, I certain to steer away from the kind of weird fiction that Lovecraft was noted for.
Did you try more than one text for comparison?