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Lovecraft, H P - Astounding stories - Swirls of ice-dust
Identifier
015466
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
"The higher sky, as we crossed the range, was surely vaporous and disturbed enough; and although I did not see the zenith I can well imagine that its swirls of ice-dust may have taken strange forms. Imagination, knowing how vividly distant scenes can sometimes be reflected, refracted, and magnified by such layers of restless cloud, might easily have supplied the rest—and of course Danforth did not hint any of those specific horrors till after his memory had had a chance to draw on his bygone reading. He could never have seen so much in one instantaneous glance."
—At the Mountains of Madness
(Originally published in Astounding Stories, February 1936.)
The source of the experience
Lovecraft, H PConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Overloads
Nutritional deprivationSleep deprivation, insomnia and mental exhaustion