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> crushing the frantic penguins There are no penguins in the Arctic (Antarctica only) so nothing to fear.
by cgh 9y ago
> crushing the frantic penguins
There are no penguins in the Arctic (Antarctica only) so nothing to fear.
- leggomylibro 9y agoOh, then we're probably safe - he was only worried about the Antarctic: "I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic — with its vast fossil-hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice-cap — and I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left." Whatever, drill away!
- arca_vorago 9y agoThis was always one of my favorite lines of Lovecraft. It's the sense of hopelessness that he manages to get into his writing that really sets the atmosphere more than just about any other writer I know of, other than perhaps Clive Barker.
- Cyberdog 9y agoOh, the Arctic penguins were frozen under the ice too.
- fancyfacebook 9y agoFalse, penguins now roam the Arctic as well after being introduced.
- seszett 9y agoThat's really not true.
- stan_rogers 9y agoPenguin is also an old name for an auk or puffin; it didn't become a name for what are now called penguins until after Europeans got down there to see them, and didn't become exclusively the name for them until quite recently. So no reason, really, not to be afraid. Lovecraft would have preferred it that way.