TravelinDan88

TravelinDan88 t1_jb7ieru wrote

There's a philosophical theory that we're all the same living being. For instance, right now I'm me, but in a past life I was my neighbor or I was Bill Gates, etc. Not really chronological past lives but parallel. The world is populated by a single life form repeated ad infinitum beside itself.

It's funky to ponder that while stoned.

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TravelinDan88 t1_j9uemh6 wrote

Everyone wants his Mountains Of Madness but I don't think many people have actually read that story. Absolutely nothing happens. Nothing. Just some dudes surrounded by snow, then they come across an eldritch horror briefly and run away. The only way to turn that into a decent movie is by adding a whole lot of nonsense which would detract from Lovecraft's original work in a huge way.

The story is great as words on a page. It gets into your head and makes you think on it. Putting it on film wouldn't work.

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