Initial notes/thoughts... Why did Lovecraft choose reptiles? Reference to the biblical flood "here I saw with joy what seemed to promise further traces of the antediluvian people" "Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge" antediluvian - of or belonging to the time be...
Do you think anybody reading this back in the day found it racist? I doubt it. I think he's saying... If you have the genes of some kind of debauched lineage you are doomed to follow. There is no escape. Rats live underground. They eat shit. They live in the dark. They want to get/keep away from hum...