It's the same reason I haven't read "The Litany of Earth," though I understand that's good too. When I reach some sort of closure on my story, which is giving me a hell of a time, I will feel able to appreciate yours properly.
I'm not insulted. "The Litany of Earth" is indeed very good: I found out about it just as I was starting to write "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" and I held off reading it until I had finished, after which I came to the conclusion that Jewish readers of Lovecraft really notice the bit at the beginning of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" where the government rounds up most of the population and puts them in concentration camps. Which I understand was not quite as unbelievably fucking creepy in 1931 when Lovecraft was writing the story as it is now in hindsight of the next decade and a half, but still.
I hope your story starts giving you less of a hell of a time, since I would like to read it.
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I'm not insulted. "The Litany of Earth" is indeed very good: I found out about it just as I was starting to write "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" and I held off reading it until I had finished, after which I came to the conclusion that Jewish readers of Lovecraft really notice the bit at the beginning of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" where the government rounds up most of the population and puts them in concentration camps. Which I understand was not quite as unbelievably fucking creepy in 1931 when Lovecraft was writing the story as it is now in hindsight of the next decade and a half, but still.
I hope your story starts giving you less of a hell of a time, since I would like to read it.