TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different name, say EU ministers

Re:TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different na... by StavrosK on Saturday September 24, 2016 @04:37AM (#12570083)

Offtopic, but does anyone else find Lovecraft too over-the-top? I know that many people like him, but it gets tiresome that everything is nameless, frightful, indescribable, hideous, hellish, monstrous, indescribable, etc. He's not very subtle at all with his descriptions, even a house that was previously established as super creepy gets an "abominable" when referring to it.

I found him so over the top that I wanted to confirm my hunch experimentally, and made a list of the 150 most prominent words in his opus. It is unsurprising:

https://i.imgur.com/pUUzFCJ.png

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Re:TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different na... by YeGoblynQueenne on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:16AM (#12570199)

>> does anyone else find Lovecraft too over-the-top?

Does anyone find Metallica over the top? How about Slayer? Cannibal Corpse?

It's the form- it's supposed to be over-the-top. And btw, that's not in an ironic way.

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Re:TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different na... by BjoernKW on Saturday September 24, 2016 @05:11AM (#12570189)

Someone once said that Lovecraft suffered from adjectivitis. I'm fond of his writing and have read pretty much all of his stories but I get the point. Especially when reading several Lovecraft stories in quick succession they can seem repetitive.

I'm surprised words like 'mongrel' aren't featured more prominently in that word cloud. His blatant racism really detracts from some of his otherwise great stories. It's particularly annoying in the Call of Cthulhu where it's almost like from the author's perspective the true evil isn't the monstrous, cyclopean abomination but non-WASPs.

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Re:TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different na... by StavrosK on Saturday September 24, 2016 @03:28PM (#12572220)

Yeah, I saw the word "nigger" show up in the diagram, so I went and had a look. In "The Rats in the Walls" the author has a cat called "Nigger-man", but that was a proper name so I removed it (I removed all proper names).

Also, I think you're spot on with adjectivitis. It explains exactly what I don't like about his stories.

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Re:TTIP trade deal could be re-launched under a different na... by moogly on Saturday September 24, 2016 @07:16AM (#12570476)

I must admit I cracked up when seeing "PENGUINS" in that word cloud.

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