the man-shaped light & Pym's snow-white giant

[Dee Kilroy]

Oh for certain: the immeasurable horror they can't properly contain, its
protean gaze following them like a compass needle...  The Lovecraftian, um,
vibe is fer shure there to pick up...

Apropos of Robert Peary's suicidally determined theft of a sacred stone &
Noo Yawk, just chanced across this bit of ore in the wiki wilds:  "In 1896,
Peary, a Master Mason, received his degrees in Kane Lodge No. 454, New York
City."  Hrmm.

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 3:30 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> always thought of that section as more Lovecraftian, though there are some
> parallels with some of the later scenes in Pym. both tales are somewhat
> ambiguous in their endings, too
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 3:06 PM Dee Kilroy <deadendkid76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Anyone out there with tips linking ATD's arctic expedition (pages 145-153)
>> with Poe's 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym'?
>>
>> Every time I've read those pages of Against The Day my mind reaches for
>> the
>> ending of Pym, yet I don't see much out there relating the two.  Could be
>> I
>> dunno how to dig for a connection proper.  Could be there's no link at
>> all.  COULD be...
>>
>> (Naturally, also find myself contemplating Robert Peary's theft of a
>> certain sacred meteor from the Inughuit in the late 1890s...)
>>
>> These are the things that keep me up at night!
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>