“My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time.”

— H.P. Lovecraft, book The Transition of Juan Romero

"The Transition of Juan Romero" - Written 16 Sep 1919; first published in Marginalia (1944)
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Context: My opinion of my whole experience varies from time to time. In broad daylight, and at most seasons I am apt to think the greater part of it a mere dream; but sometimes in the autumn, about two in the morning when winds and animals howl dismally, there comes from inconceivable depths below a damnable suggestions of rhythmical throbbing … and I feel that the transition of Juan Romero was a terrible one indeed.

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