On: Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Cthulhu

[0xbadcafebee]

Magic is just science we don't understand yet.

[0xdeadbeefbabe → 0xbadcafebee]

Squeaked the geeky yet intrepid explorer as he descended the cyclopean steps of the twilit cavern.

[Spivak → 0xdeadbeefbabe]

I'm suddenly really interested in his stories because of how the universe was described, but is that really what his writing style is like?

[mrec → Spivak]

Nah, it doesn't use "gibbous", "squamous" or even "rugose" at all. Null points, 0xdeadbeefbabe, null points.

Parody sites like http://thedoomthatcametopuppet.tumblr.com/ actually give a pretty good sense of his signature style.

[0xdeadbeefbabe → mrec]

“Things–presences or voices of some sort–could be drawn down from unknown places as well as to standard out.” is what I meant to say.

Edit: Now I know puppet is horrible after all.

[qznc → 0xdeadbeefbabe]

When I played with Markov chains, I used Lovecraft and some scientific papers. It mixed frighteningly well.

Example: Field of research were allowed to deadlock, but I still intend to accept the situation might be available for a unification algorithm.

[duskwuff → Spivak]

No; his real writing style is even more florid than that. Lovecraft's writing is marked by complex sentence structure and a heavy use of archaic terms. Compare the opening of "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" for an example:

http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/library/stacks/liter...

[0xdeadbeefbabe → Spivak]

You tell us: http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/src.aspx