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I like The Whisperer in Darkness. It gives aliens a truly otherworldly nature.

Keeping the great monster invisible and giving only hints of it via a telescope being passed around was brilliant. More authors should use these techniques to maintain the mystery and horror of their monsters.

Oh Cthulu, you're such a practical joker.

Rats, always rats.

I’m sorry but executing some one because you dislike their ideas doesn’t silence them or discredit them. It makes them a martyr and makes others very curious about was so bad about their ideas. Want to combat a harmful idea? Debate it, talk about it and work to find the truth underneath the idea.

Interest in John Rae and the lost Franklin expedition reached as far as Cincinnati, Ohio. Hardship and cannibalism does draw a morbid fascination from people.

I never thought i would say this, but i have lost some respect (though not all) for Charles Dickens. While he was a good man that wished to shed light on the conditions of Londons poor, he was all to ready to character assassinate an honest explorer at the whims of a bitter upper class widow. And denigrate an entire people because of prejudice.

Portaging: Stupidly trying to move a boat over land while at the same time carrying everything else on your backs.

Forget hollywoods romanticized depictions of living during early to mid 1800’s. This was a brutal time in history, especially if you spent it in the dark woods in near isolation.

Some men are destined to slog through the most miserable conditions, and be strangely cheery about it.

You know you’re a bada$$ when the prospect of wintering in an abandoned fort, in a makeshift tent, in the middle of an east coast winter, fills you with excitement.
Or you’re possibly insane. Either works.

Get your S.P.E.W. button today.

Socrates and Euthyphro's conversation of what is pious and what is impious, to me at least, lead nowhere. It seemed like Socrates knew the answer to the question he posed to Euthyphro but wanted Euthyphro to say the answer that Socrates specifically wanted to hear. Perhaps as a way to challenge Meletus' indictment by saying: "Look here, this man agrees with me."