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Nyarlathotep Living Language

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English is a breathing, living language, growing and shedding words as it sees fit. It extends to include even the most obscure words that describe even the most bizarre of emotions – rubatosis, the awareness of your heartbeat, or sonder, the realization of the intricate and detailed lives of everyone around you. Even with an endless of sea of letters and phrases at everyone’s disposal, there is not yet a word to translate the feeling I experienced after reading your short story Nyarlathotep. And yet, I feel as though any attempt of producing a feeble combination of lines and dots to convey a flurry of awe, inspiration, shock, and true horror would fall short of my experience. Savoring each word the first time I read it felt as if I was

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