| I am haunted by recollections | |
| Of places where mad perfections | |
| In horror were brought to birth; | |
| Where pylons of onyx mounted | |
| To heavens with fire embowered, | |
| And turrets and domes uncounted | |
| O’er the terraced torrents towered. | |
| —H. P. Lovecraft | |
| in his 1925 poem “Primavera” | |
Although it is outside the scope of this series to get heavily into the literary influences involved behind Hodgson and Lovecraft, it is, as was indicated in part 1, a necessary query into the workings behind the subconscious and any possible connection to an anamnesis of a cataclysmic end to a pre-historic Martian civilization. If there were ever such a civilization, given all the other possibilities we are exploring here at Suburbs of Heaven, it would pervade the entire solar system, not just Mars. Continue reading Dwellers on the Threshold:The “Night Land” and the “Anamnesic Imagination” Part 4-The Call of the Muse