He comments on basic human behavior, like social observational humor. At he risk of tremendous redundancy (it's one of my favorite observational passages in CAS) from
The Dark Eidolon, Zotulla's main concubine, Obexah, when she first sees Namirrha...
Quote:And Obexah, peering beneath lowered lids, was abashed and frightened by the visible horror that invested this man and hung upon him even as royalty upon a king. But amid her fear, she found room to wonder what manner of man he was in his intercourse with women.
All this, and yet she wonders what he's like in bed...
Could you imagine HPL writing this?
Then there's the repeated insults of the much vaunted Ralibar Vooz (itself a fairly comical name) in
The Seven Geases when he is basically rejected seven consecutive times as a potential blood sacrifice. He's not worth the effort...
CAS definitely had a ready sense of the absurd and the ironic, and was not reluctant to use these devices to orchestrate his narratives.
--Sawfish
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"The food at the new restaurant is awful, but at least the portions are large."
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