Lovecraft’s dig at intellectual modernism

I’m really starting to wish he had lived another ten years. He was a quote-machine by the end (from page 575 of Joshi):

“When a given age has no new natural impulse toward change, is it not better to continue building on the established forms than to concoct grotesque and meaningless novelties out of thin academic theory?”

He then refers to

“the laboured, freakish, uninspired search for strange shapes which nobody wants and which mean nothing”