ATDTDA 724... 'The Shadow Out of Time'

[Glenn Scheper]

I mentioned before, it was "clamorous descent"
that led me to this lovecraft text, which upon
reading, has many similar ideas P used in ATD:


	cf: ATD journeys

In 1909 I spent a month in the Himalayas, and in 1911 roused much attention 
through a camel trip into the unknown deserts of Arabia. What happened on those 
journeys I have never been able to learn.

During the summer of l9l2 I chartered a ship and sailed in the Arctic, north of 
Spitzbergen, afterward showing signs of disappointment.

Later in that year I spent weeks - alone beyond the limits of previous or 
subsequent exploration in the vast limestone cavern systems of western Virginia 
- black labyrinths so complex that no retracing of my steps could even be 
considered.
  -- http://tmoct.co.uk/lovecraft/shadowtime.htm
  The Shadow Out of Time

	cf. buried meteorite/beast exceeding ship.

They were only partly material - as we understand matter - and their type of 
consciousness and media of perception differed widely from those of terrestrial 
organisms.
  -- http://tmoct.co.uk/lovecraft/shadowtime.htm
  The Shadow Out of Time

	cf. The meritious price of the redemption of christ:

Through projection, arrangements were made to inflict these penalties on the 
offending minds in their new future bodies - and sometimes forced reëxchanges 
were effected.
  -- http://tmoct.co.uk/lovecraft/shadowtime.htm
  The Shadow Out of Time

	cf. sub-sand travel (and it's yuckiness)

Within the dreams I seemed gradually to acquire a greater and greater freedom of 
wandering. I floated through many strange buildings of stone, going from one to 
the other along mammoth underground passages which seemed to form the common 
avenues of transit. Sometimes I encountered those gigantic sealed trap-doors in 
the lowest level, around which such an aura of fear and forbiddenness clung.
  -- http://tmoct.co.uk/lovecraft/shadowtime.htm
  The Shadow Out of Time

	cf. submerged mural.

They bear evidence of water action, as if this part of the world had been 
submerged and come up again after long ages - all since those blocks were made 
and used. It is a matter of hundreds of thousands of years - or heaven knows how 
much more. I don't like to think about it.
  -- http://tmoct.co.uk/lovecraft/shadowtime.htm
  The Shadow Out of Time


Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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