I am profoundly saddened by the news of H. P. Lovecraft's death after a month of painful illness. The loss seems an intolerable one, and I am sure that it will be felt deeply and permanently by the whole weird fiction public. Most of all will it be felt by the myriad friends who knew Lovecraft through face-to-face meeting or correspondence: for in his case the highest literary genius was allied to the most brilliant and most endearing personal qualities.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I am profoundly saddened by the news of H. P. Lovecraft's death after a month of painful illness. The loss seems an intolerable one, and I am sure that it will be felt deeply and permanently by the whole weird fiction public. Most of all will it be felt by the myriad friends who knew Lovecraft through face-to-face meeting or correspondence: for in his case the highest literary genius was allied to the most brilliant and most endearing personal qualities." in the context of "Clark Ashton Smith, letter, Weird Tales magazine, July 1937. Reprinted in Robert Weinberg, The Weird Tales Story, Wildside Press, Berkeley Heights, N.J., 1999." to mean that wisdom is timeless.