*dark matter lifeform voice* hey all! you know what's got n+1 thumbs, a habitation that's even one with your guarded threshold, and a POWERFUL love for individual socks? that's right, this guy! *recursive thumb cascade triggers collapse of local spacetime*
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so then in "the people under the hill", "the hill" would be spacetime with its gravitational curvature. such beings would seem to be able to move around the substructure of space without worrying about what's in the superstructure, leading us to the "guarded threshold" line
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that's from Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror", from a whole murder-wall rant about the "Old Ones", who are described in several ways as having exactly the properties one would expect from a dark matter lifeform. "n+1 thumbs" ofc starts as being part of the framing reference
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