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ItвЂ™s not wholly out of place in a novella about ancient ruins. The term вЂњCyclopean masonryвЂќ derives from Classical Greece, when the Greeks would look upon the works of an earlier civilization-the Mycenaeans-and marvel at the sheer size of the stone blocks used, which they theorized were lifted by Cyclopes. Also the word вЂњCyclopeanвЂќ gets thrown around to describe damn near everything, probably because Lovecraft thought it sounded cool 3.

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There was a row of arched loopholes or windows about four feet wide and five feet high spaced quite symmetrically along the points of the star and at its inner angles, and with the bottoms about four feet from the glaciated surface.вЂќ вЂњThis rampart, shaped like a star and perhaps 300 feet from point to point, was built of Jurassic sandstone blocks of irregular size, averaging 6 Г— 8 feet in surface. Our author Lovecraft was, of course, a colossal architecture nerd with a penchant for verbosity, so when I say вЂњprecise,вЂќ I mean that it goes on for pages, and pages, and yet more pages. The first order of business is to catalogue the precise design and construction of these alien monoliths. Being men of science, Dyer and Danforth land the plane in the nearest open space, and begin their investigation. Dyer theorizes it has been here for at least 500,000 years, probably much longer there is a distinct five-pointed symmetry to many of the structures that harkens back to the strange creatures Lake uncovered. A positively gargantuan city, in fact, the likes of which no human has yet beheld. Turns out that thereвЂ™s a city on the other side. These arenвЂ™t necessarily madness-inducing, but they are mountains.

IвЂ™m not even going to try to describe these freakish things, just see for yourself:

Things go well at first, many scientific discoveries are made-and then an advance party led by Professor Lake uncovers the strangest fossils anybody has ever seen.

Altogether, itвЂ™s a slow start for the story. To aid in this quest they bring drilling equipment, sled dogs, and a small number of planes. It all begins with twenty men, led by four scientists from Miskatonic University, undertaking a journey to the last continent with the noble but prosaic intention of collecting mineral samples. Instead, we get a matter-of-fact retelling of the events leading to the expeditionвЂ™s demise. He hints that he found something terrible, and gives a warning against further explorations of the region nevertheless, specifics are saved for much later, as they would spoil the story. The whole novella is presented as an account by a geologist, Professor William Dyer, of the doomed Miskatonic Expedition to Antarctica. Lovecraft style, we view the story through a framing device. This is probably fair use rather than public domain, because for some BS reason the issue is still copyrighted. The issue of Astounding Stories in which At the Mountains of Madness first appeared.

But hereвЂ™s the real question: behind the nostalgia, is it any good? IвЂ™m not the only one despite never getting the big-budget adaptation it deserves 2, the 1931 novella has influenced sci-fi and horror across generations, and is a cultural touchstone to this day, particularly influencing the whole вЂњancient astronautsвЂќ genre. So, At the Mountains of Madness left a mark on a certain impressionable thirteen-year-old, who is now a jaded twenty-two-year-old with a blog and a deeply seated admiration for LovecraftвЂ™s work. On my morning walks to the bus stop, well before sunrise, I would think of those lines from Lovecraft, and the eerie music from 2001 would play in my head, and I would find it so dreadfully easy to imagine the unknowable vastness of the cosmos bearing down on me. The above passage in particular really hit hard for countless aeons, while humanity left the trees and discovered fire and played out its petty dramas of conquest, this city had waited quietly and completely undisturbed in a dark corner of the Earth.

New terrains: Updated level design / terrains for base camp and storm maps.How to describe the impact it had on me? I was, to put it mildly, spellbound by LovecraftвЂ™s adventure through an ancient city in the ice, totally enamored with the excitement of exploration on the one hand and the aura of ancient, terrible mystery on the other.

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