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Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior
Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior (1670) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "173. YOUNG LADY IN A VESTIBULE RECEIVING A LETTER. Sm. 51, Suppl. 22 ; de G. 7.
Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft scholar George Wetzel compares the messenger god Hermes in "Poetry and the Gods" with Nyarlathotep, the "messenger of Azathoth". Wetzel considers the dream communication used by Hermes to be "the same psychic device used later by Cthulhu to contact his cult followers."
Plot.
The story begins in a drawing room on an April evening "just after the Great War". A young woman, Marcia, is there alone, feeling an "immeasurable gulf that [separates] her soul"