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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoratioAtTheBridge" data-source="post: 8045208" data-attributes="member: 7025467">Interesting point about Doom vs. Death. What do you think of the idea of H.P. Lovecraft's work being about doom? That for all of our struggles, we are still as nothing, and we will be extinguished and forgotten? Perhaps it has more of a modern resonance than I was giving it credit for, given the continuing popularity of Lovecraft's brand of horror. And then Howard's Conan might be a sort of Beowulf answer to that age-old fear of eradication...I think you are right on about the idea of wanting monsters with intelligible motivations but also being okay to kill. I guess it gets a little uncomfortable indulging in an escapist fantasy when you're confronted with the implications of your actions. But then there's the ongoing debate about when violence is okay, and that has some real life resonances right now that are rather disturbing too...</blockquote>