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

[Joseph Tracy]

 Here is a fairly thorough reference for this troubling tale  about Peary and other creeps involved in this crime scene.   https://insh.world/history/robert-peary-thief-of-meteorites/ <https://insh.world/history/robert-peary-thief-of-meteorites/>

I agree with Lovecraftian but am unfamiliar with this Poe story. Sounds worth finding. The ice contained crystal alien seems in some ways like a Pynchon badass gone intercosmic demonic white whale.  But also, with the hunt for new rays on this ‘scientific expedition’ like a time travellng  exhumation of the future as warning of nuclear war, the war of the worlds as self inflicted but highly scientific insanity, a karmic answer to the ‘scientific’ treasure trove of indigenous bodies preserved in the great institutions of learning of the glorious Anglo powers. 


> On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:46 PM, Dee Kilroy <deadendkid76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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>>> 
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