The Epilogue
The Epilogue is published – Fear the dark
Fear is the key concept in Lovecraft’s work, it’s what makes it, work! Unmentionable fear, paralysing fear, a fear that eats sanity. Coming up against unmentionable fear (I said don’t mention it!) leads to a loss of sanity.
The Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game uses this concept to good effect and as this first part of The Rising Tentacle comes to a close, our four characters have lost a little sanity. Because they are each strong characters they have managed to package away the unmentionable horror (there you go again!) into a small recess of their mind (does the mind have recesses, maybe it’s a convolution). As for the rest of the inhabitants of Mingsport, they remain clueless but they have learened to fear the dark and maybe, just maybe that is enough!
A small Footnote next month will conclude A Fear Of The Dark,
RP
I’d say the mind has recesses! The neocortex has fissures and sulci. They look and sound like the sorts of dark, wet, nook that fear would skulk about… So recesses of the mind are analagous to the convolutions of the neocortex.
Yours physiologically,
Tim
Ha! Ha! Excellent discource. Just the kind of feedback I need, always welcome…
RP