On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 6:50:44 PM UTC-6, Bobby Dee wrote:
> Okay, so a couple days back Chris Knowles on his blog Secret Sun posted this huge quasi-academic rant supposedly showing Lovecraft plagiarized an obscure Theosophist. I smelled bullshit and didn't look any further into it, but it got a bunch of hits and people were spouting stupid stuff on social media, so I looked...and well, it's a well of misinformation, conspiracy theories, character assassination, and quote mining out of context. Which seems to be Knowles' specialty. Anyway, I posted a very long, tedious, point-by-point rebuttal, hopefully to just stem the tide of crap. We'll see how it goes.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/2ddiqe/a_rebuttal_to_the_secret_sun_on_lovecraft/
This was a lot of fun! Know it's been a while since you did this, but well done! Thanks.