Frank Long provides a piquant glimpse at Lovecraft’s conduct at these meetings: Almost invariably . . . Howard did most of the talking, at least for the first ten or fifteen minutes. He would sink into an easy chair—he never seemed to feel at ease in a straight-backed chair on such occasions and I took care to keep an extremely comfortable one unoccupied until his arrival—and words would flow from him in a continuous stream. He never seemed to experience the slightest necessity to pause between words. There was no groping about for just the right term, no matter how recondite his conversation
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