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Oh, 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 withou
by leggomylibro 9y ago
Oh, 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.