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I think that both of us simultaneously cried out in mixed awe, wonder, terror, and disbelief in our own senses as we finally cleared

the pass and saw what lay beyond.

The effect of the monstrous sight was indescribable.

For some fiendish violation of no natural law seems certain at the outset.

Here, on a hellishly ancient table land fully 20,000 feet high, there stretched nearly to visions limit a tangle of orderly stone, which only the desperation of mental self-defense could possibly attribute to any but a conscious

and artificial cause. That was the first paragraph of H.P. Lovecrafts at the

Mountains of Madness. I am Chris Lackey. I'm Chad Fiver and I'm Ian Colbert.

And we are on the H.P. Lovecraft literary podcast.

Here at H.P.

podcraft.com. Glad to have you back, Ian.

And I'm glad to be back.

This is our fourth episode of at the mountains of

manas I'll also mention that it is our 80th episode and 80 episodes of this show if you

don't count the readings right so far and the the really great thing about this episode is that we're

here in Santa Monica and Chris is actually in the room with me right now. Oh my God I am. Yeah. I didn't

realize that. You're surprised by that?

Yeah. Things seemed a little different, but I couldn't quite put my finger on.

Right.

Yeah, that's what it is. But, you know, we, the first half, I guess probably almost up to the first forty episodes we did do in your apartment

about a block away from here

and then chris moved to england and and we've been doing it over skite but chris is uh... on his way

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