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He was right about the niggers. Maybe he's also right about the malevolent, eldritch entities which roam the non-euclidean planes of the cosmos. It keeps me up at night. The first of the two statements, that is.
wtf is a non-euclidean plane of the cosmos? What peculiar aspects of said plane makes it non-euclidean? What makes a regular plane of the cosmos euclidean?
Are we talking fancy talk or math here?
sounds a little trolly but really asking
Yea I like Lovecraft, read more than a few and am familiar but a lot of it is talk like that^
Don't think you are the first to choke on that one. LOL Some great writers have tangled with it. I believe they would be angles that reached out of this dimension into another intangible reality, if that helps.
The problem with Lovecraft being right is that if you know about them, they know about you. Azathoth sees all.
Its something almost specifically associated with Lovecraft.
I've seen this geometry, but I was out of my body on hydroponic mushrooms (no joke)
How to describe it though??
The angles were also curves?
The shapes weave and carve themselves out of nothing, and then back into nothing but it always somehow has a volume, area, perimeter...
Let me think about this for a second.
The nature of other dimensional thought is not so easily put to words. HPL had a nack for it.
Nobody knows, it's impossible to imagine. That's the point. It's all fancy talk. To elaborate:
It's where geometry beyond human comprehension exists; angles intersect at impossible angles, and colours from outer space blend into shapes that are detrimental to your very sanity.
I think the closest possible analogue is to take 10 grams of shrooms and then smoke a fuckton of weed to land yourself in a bad trip with ego-death where you're falling through fractal patterns while losing all sensations of yourself. You will not know who 'you' are anymore, and feel like you are going insane with extreme fear, but you cannot even grasp the very concepts of fear or sanity; yet you realize something is terribly wrong.
Yeah, cause I find the second statement curiously satisfying for some reason.
Oh, I only just read your other replies in this thread and realized belatedly that you're a fan of Lovecraft as well. What are your favorite stories? The one that stayed with me the most were 'The Colour Out of Space', 'The Whisperer in Darkness', and my first and one of my favorites is 'At the Mountains of Madness'. The sense of wonder and exploration it evokes is unmatched. He somehow manages to combine science fiction elements with fantasy elements in a way that makes sense and is believable. It's nearly impossible to duplicate his style without sounding like an annoying smartypants, to say it crudely. I can't quite put into words how he manages to do it.
I read his stories over and over. I am stunned by the art he inspired on site like Deviantart.com . Mountains of Madness has always resonated with me, and even more now that they have found something in Antarctica. The Reanimator was Frankenstein done right. It's hard to say my favorite, since re reads have made me appreciate things I had missed before. Lovecraft also collaborated with other writers. One book I have is a collection of these stories called "The Horror in the Museum". It was like finding a lost book of Lovecraft.
Same. It's Lovecraft's lingo. He had a knack for describing the indescribable in a grandiose style that touches the imagination; he did this without seeming verbose or intentionally obtuse.
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