| Lovecraft's style isn't just fantastically inflated, as Houellebecq acknowledges, but shot through with a creeping genteelism that was bound up with his delusions of being an 18th-century gentleman. |
| Lady used to indicate a woman professional, as in lady doctor and lady lawyer, a genteelism that dates from a time when women were rare in such professions. |
| He will eventually shed this genteelism, while still struggling with his duel nature. |
