"[T]he Mediterranean world isn’t so bad when one goes back to Pelasgic times and takes the Graeco-Roman races! After all, I have dark hair and eyes now, no matter what I used to have; and it is quite as good to be a sanguinary Roman consul as a Norse pirate."
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H. P. Lovecraft, Letter to Frank Belknap Long, 13 May 1923; Selected Letters I: 1911–1924 (Arkham, 1965), p. 228
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