If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence...
H.P. Lovecraft's lovely and horrific creation!
Maybe I am mistaken, but I think anyone reading the description for the first time finds that such a creature is not hard to imagine and has existed subconsciously in their mind for their entire life.
I wrote the part above last night and later posted a Cthulhu graphic on facebook, my friend Will commented:
subconsciously this causes me some anxiety
So in a certain way that was a synchronicity and a bit of evidence that what I said above may be true.
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