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* [[Author Phobia]]: Lovecraft's life-long fear of cold temperatures is part of what makes this story so effective. |
* [[Author Phobia]]: Lovecraft's life-long fear of cold temperatures is part of what makes this story so effective. |
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* [[Name's the Same]]: The Elder Things are alternately referred to as "Old Ones" which could create some confusion as the same term was used to refer to beings associated with Yog-Sothoth and C'thulhu. |
* [[Name's the Same]]: The Elder Things are alternately referred to as "Old Ones" which could create some confusion as the same term was used to refer to beings associated with Yog-Sothoth and C'thulhu. |
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* [[Science Marches On]]: The past seventy-five years have shown many advancements in Antarctic exploration, revealing a continent wholly unlike what is described in this book. |
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** Some of the terminology, such as "Comanchian", was already obsolete. So was the initial idea (edited out of the final product) that Antarctica was actually two continents. |
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** There was also the very concept of interplanetary travel; they were said to "fly through the aether on leathery wings", with aether being the old concept of what existed beyond the upper atmosphere. Apparently, the concept of a near-complete vacuum was either not prevalent at Lovecraft's time, or he just thought that aether was more poetic. |
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Revision as of 19:02, 22 October 2014
- Author Phobia: Lovecraft's life-long fear of cold temperatures is part of what makes this story so effective.
- Name's the Same: The Elder Things are alternately referred to as "Old Ones" which could create some confusion as the same term was used to refer to beings associated with Yog-Sothoth and C'thulhu.
- Science Marches On: The past seventy-five years have shown many advancements in Antarctic exploration, revealing a continent wholly unlike what is described in this book.
- Some of the terminology, such as "Comanchian", was already obsolete. So was the initial idea (edited out of the final product) that Antarctica was actually two continents.
- There was also the very concept of interplanetary travel; they were said to "fly through the aether on leathery wings", with aether being the old concept of what existed beyond the upper atmosphere. Apparently, the concept of a near-complete vacuum was either not prevalent at Lovecraft's time, or he just thought that aether was more poetic.