At The Mountains Of Madness opinions

CthulhuLegionary · Post by **CthulhuLegionary** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:42 pm

Hey guys, i just finished reading ATMOM... and found it awesome!!! it almost cracked my mind. I just wanted to discuss it with other guys which have read it.
Lovecraft was a fucking genius.

and: What do u think was that ultimate horror glimpsed by Danforth?

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:03 pm

I'm not really sure i would have to read it again...
*runs off to secure a copy*

CthulhuLegionary · Post by **CthulhuLegionary** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 3:58 pm

no prob, ill b waiting

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:12 pm

Mmm...excellent stuff...

Issac Pilgrim · Post by **Issac Pilgrim** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:25 am

You know the climactic cry of the giant penguins, "Tekelili! Tekelili!" was taken from Poe's "The Voyage of Arthur Gorden Pym, of Nantuket". I love ATMOM as well.

CthulhuLegionary · Post by **CthulhuLegionary** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:01 pm

wasn´t tekelili the sound the Old Ones made, which was then copied by the shoggoths?
and yes, i remeber the book says something about birds in Poe´s book crying tekelili.

let me check it again...

CthulhuLegionary · Post by **CthulhuLegionary** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 3:11 pm

Ive just checked my ATMOM and it says about the sound:

"It was, Danforth later told me, precisely what he had caught in infinitely muffled form when at that spot beyond the alley corner above the glacial level; and it certainly had a shocking resemblance to the wind pipings we had both heard around the lofty mountain caves. At the risk of seeming puerile I will add another thing, too, if only because of the surprising way Danforth’s impressions chimed with mine. Of course common reading is what prepared us both to make the interpretation, though Danforth has hinted at queer notions about unsuspected and forbidden sources to which Poe may have had access when writing his Arthur Gordon Pym a century ago. It will be remembered that in that fantastic tale there is a word of unknown but terrible and prodigious significance connected with the antarctic and screamed eternally by the gigantic spectrally snowy birds of that malign region’s core. "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!" That, I may admit, is exactly what we thought we heard conveyed by that sudden sound behind the advancing white mist-that insidious musical piping over a singularly wide range. "

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:00 pm

Hmmm excellent stuff indeed,
btw sry ive been away guys...i was on a brief vacation

Issac Pilgrim · Post by **Issac Pilgrim** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:42 am

The Voyage of Arthur Gorden Pym contains some horrible and grotesque images; remember, anyone, how the decomposed bodies on the deck of the drifting ship had merged into one liquescent mass, or how the distant figure of the helmsman on the derelict, turns out to be nodding and smiling broadly because he is dead, and seagulls have eaten away his lips, exposing his teeth? The only book I can think of that compares to it in terms of hideous grotesqueness would be Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian.

CthulhuLegionary · Post by **CthulhuLegionary** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 9:37 am

Yeah but...

nobody has answered my question: what do u think Danforth saw on those hellish mountains that left him like a mad man?

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:33 pm

UI have no idea, it could be best not to know...

CthulhuLegionary · Post by **CthulhuLegionary** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 1:57 pm

yea, well, thats part of Lovecraft´s genius, not knowing much about the universe

tsathoggua · Post by **tsathoggua** » Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:18 pm

Exactly ^^

otaku · Post by **otaku** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:23 pm

I read the definitive edition with a forward by china mieville when it first came out (few years ago?) I recall having a bit of trouble getting through it unlike HpL's shorter works but I finished it and found it not to be a waste of time. I have another copy now an original arkham house 1st edition I plan to read someday

Rodr-Evil · Post by **Rodr-Evil** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:34 pm

One of my favorites works of the Master.