Ep 082 - At the Mountains of Madness, by H.P. Lovecraft

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 13 October 2014

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

If you've ever heard of a Cthulu, read about the Necronomicon, or been creeped out by sleepy towns in New England, you likely have H.P. Lovecraft to thank.

At the Mountains of Madness (1935), a tale of an Antarctic expedition gone wrong, fits squarely into two literary genres Lovecraft helped to define: cosmicism and weird fiction. Man is rendered insignificant by the ancient forces of the cosmos, and supernatural beings that are neither ghosts nor aliens abound.

Suffice to say, things might get a little spooky this week!

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	The Ciders in our closet just bubbling away.
0:40.9	That's cool. Is it a specific kind of cider?
0:45.2	We just bought some of the farmers market and then heated it up to pasteurization,
0:51.2	temperature, which I mean it had been pasteurized already, but we needed it. We wanted to add
0:56.5	other stuff to it. We added brown sugar. We had a broken stick of cinnamon in there.
1:02.4	It's whirling around the whole time. Okay. And then some maple syrup.
1:06.5	Oh, welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books you've been meaning to read and the beers
1:11.8	you've been meaning to drink. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And that was a misnomer when I
1:16.8	said beers were actually talking about cider. More cider talk. More cider talk.
1:21.2	We already talked about it. We did last week or the week before.
1:25.1	I don't know. But now we're putting the booktober.
1:27.2	Putting theory into practice. Wait, you're making pudding?
1:31.2	No, where did you get that from? You said you said you were working on your pudding theory.
1:36.4	No, I'm putting theory into practice. I have a pudding theory.
1:39.8	Putting is delicious. That's not a very good theory. I've never made homemade pudding.
1:46.4	I've made Jello. Isn't Jello pudding homemade? You just dump it into the bowl and whisk it around.
1:52.7	If you make it in your home, I guess that's a very loose definition.
1:59.0	I don't even know how do you even... Does Jello powder occur naturally in nature?
2:04.3	Like, how do you... Oh, that's a fair point.
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