Sane men going insane in an utterly blank terrain.Įarly on, Lake sees a set of inexplicable triangular tracks in the rocks and eventually sets off to lead a small team further inland, arriving at a previously undiscovered and incredibly tall mountain range in the wild land’s heart. Lovecraft’s classic tale of Antarctic science-terror, At the Mountains of Madness, follows geologist Dyer and his team of experts - including Pabodie, the engineer, Lake, the biologist, and Danforth, the neurasthenic youth - as they traipse across our southernmost continent, taking bores of ancient strata of rock.
Most recently, I’ve enjoyed this text for exactly the pleasures of unraveling the structure of the novella, one which can seem intentionally awkward - the multiple elaboration of a single “what happened?” moment, a moment of sublime WTF-ness - of cosmic vertigo… In honor of the continual freezing of the cat’s water, I’m holding off on reviews of a Jean-Christophe Valtat novella in order to return to a hypnotically grim novella from my youth that I read periodically.
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