tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3179069863789416483.post8745103537377796122..comments2023-07-19T07:49:53.361-07:00Comments on a few years in the Absolute Elsewhere: The Coming Race: A Secondary Excursion into the Cavern World.Tristan Eldritchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10239386613395519115noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3179069863789416483.post-71310586974047625622010-05-16T16:21:35.579-07:002010-05-16T16:21:35.579-07:00Yes, the Mountains of Madness loom strangely over ...Yes, the Mountains of Madness loom strangely over all of this business, and more of them anon.<br /><br />That is an interesting quote (it would make a brilliant closing monologue in an old Twilight or Outer Limits episode!) The question of how, why, and to what degree we know things is something that...we may never know, I guess! We need another perspective, I think. Aliens, or AI, or some other medium of intelligent awareness with which we can compare notes....otherwise, we remain unsure whether or not our brains can solve the questions we ask, or even articulate the right questions in the first place...Tristan Eldritchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10239386613395519115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3179069863789416483.post-11071776414639431382010-05-15T18:29:48.816-07:002010-05-15T18:29:48.816-07:00Mountains of Madness...once again, truth proves it...Mountains of Madness...once again, truth proves itself as strange, if not more so, as fiction. There seems to be very few ideas that someone, somewhere, can not find the will to champion.<br /><br />I liked the following question and answer from an article by Marilynne Robinson, that can be found here: http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/thinking-again<br /><br />” What is man? One answer on offer is: An organism whose haunting questions perhaps ought not to be meaningful to the organ that generates them, lacking as it is in any means of “solving” them.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Garretthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14863313404953361727noreply@blogger.com