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Saturday, March 03, 2007
Friday, March 02, 2007
Lovecraftian Influence? Raising Atlantis by Thomas Greanias
Chrispy is behind on his reading. Just finished Raising Atlantis. I was intrigued when I heard the author describe it on the George Noory CoastToCoastAM show. Lovecraft followed Poe to Antarctica, but there is little to show a dorect influence on At The Mountains of Madness.
Still, there is a heritage, since the book is filled with New Age reinterpretations of Egypt, Aztec, and Platonic myths. I will not give much away by saying this is a quick read, potboiling novel that centers around global climate change, plate tectonics, a miles high pyramid buried deep in the Antarctic ice adjacent to an eldritch necropolis.
If you read it, post your comments below.
Lunar Eclipse of 3 March 2007
Lovecraft saw and observed many eclipses. This one will be over Providence, again. The East Coast will enjoy the longest view, but, even there, the Moon will rise already eclipsed since the Moon rises at about 5:45 P.M. EST.
On 2 January 1917 in the Providence Evening News, Howard wrote, "At the time of the full moon on January 7-8 there will be a total lunar eclipse; visible at Providence {between 11:36 PM (enters penumbra) to 5:33 AM (leaves penumbra)}. The long period of totality comprising nearly an hour and a half, will afford an interesting specatacle ... In the eclipse of 1884 the moon totally disappeared from the sight of the naked eye; a phenomenon of great rarity... The lunar eclipse is, of course, an eclipse of the sun by the Earth as seen by an observor on the moon."
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