Off Kilter

[twilightpony]

I went back out on my balcony last night and I was up way too late looking through my telescope. Then I slept in. Then I had a headache so I ate a big bowl of beet pulp soup to settle my stomach and balance my blood sugar. That took a while. By the time I felt better it was night again.

Time for a little light reading and off to bed again. Tomorrow I'll be back on track.

Speaking of on track, I suspect Moondancer is either in Yakyakistan or she's already following her compass due north to the unknown and the stuff of legends. My copy of Treatise on Ponies is always open, ready and waiting. But I'm not always beside it. I probably wont hear of her adventures until she gets back to Canterlot.

Comments

[flareblitzfury]

Good to hear that you felt better!

Oooo, cool! I hope things are going well for her!

[twilightpony]

Thanks!

I'm sure she researched out all she could and planned it to the last detail. It's what I'd do.

[flareblitzfury]

You're welcome, my friend!

Yeah!

[algernon97]

Off to the mountains of madness, where unspeakable horrors lie buried beneath the snow and ice...

[twilightpony]

Aaaahh!! ...No wait, I checked my atlas. There are no such mountains.

[algernon97]

The story, and its narrator, only refer to the mountains as "The mountains of madness" because of what happened there.

The mountains have no name at all, actually.

Would you care to read the story? I could provide you with a "link" to it.

[twilightpony]

I do prefer real books and scrolls to panning through text projected on a wall, but yes, for research! I could be prepared for a camp-out! But I hope it's in plain text. Some pages in this earth-web look like garbled strings of characters that make no sense whatsoever.

[algernon97]

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx

Here is a link to the story, written by H. P. Lovecraft.

Sorry for the lateness of the reply.

[twilightpony]

Thanks! The text is not garbled so I'll add it to my reading pile! It looks like stilted prose, a bit like late Royal Canterlot verbiage but without the volume or the self reference in the third person.

[algernon97]

H.P. Lovecraft's writing style is a bit...weird. Overly descriptive in some parts, to say one example. Perhaps this is why he's considered a pioneer of "weird fiction."

It's been said that he's a good storyteller in spite of how he wrote.