in reading Lovecraft, I’ve noticed that one of his go-to tropes is ‘It was so horrible I can’t even describe it.’
Is it genius or an easy cop-out? I actually can’t decide.
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It’s absolutely necessary. The unknown is far more terrifying than the known. It’s not that he couldn’t come up with a horrible thing, it’s that not knowing /is/ a horrible thing, one of the worst.
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The Tao that is seen etc.
“Seeing this thing will take away your sanity and mark you for the rest of your life”
>paints it
>doesn’t go mad
Shadows on the wall of a cave, mu friend
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imo it's a copout, borges for example did "at the mountains of madness" better
I don’t agree but The Immortals is one of my favorite stories
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