What was his fucking problem?

What was his fucking problem?

no spegetii

Forgot to set his alarm.

Hey was old and grumpy

u cant know cuz u wud go mad if u did

moot wouldn't let him be a janitor

He got trolled

>wake up from an eon long nap
>about to get up and stretch your legs
>A fucking boat smacks you in the head at full speed

>stretch your legs

What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Lovecraft. I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of "The Call of 'Cthulhu." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the storywas terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time Cthulhu woke from his aeonic slumber, the author wrote instead that the he "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Lovecraft's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that he has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now only read H.P. Lovecraft, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Lovecraft was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "The Call of Cthulhu" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Cthulhu by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Cthulhu at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "The Call of Cthulhu" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Nicely done