![]() ![]() I wanted to play with that a little by injecting a more cosmic horror, so the “thinness” is between our Earth and something lying far beyond. ![]() The polar ice has been used throughout literature as something of a liminal space, where the veils between this world and death, or the supernatural, have grown thin-it’s very memorably portrayed in Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Captain of the Polestar” as a place of supernatural encounters. Thank you! I’m delighted you picked up on the sense of otherworldliness. Could you go into this aspect a little more? You also touch on the idea of illusion throughout the story, both with David’s relationships, and with the peculiarities of the crucible they’re in. ![]() It harks back to Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, Hodgson’s The House on the Borderland, and even Frankenstein, with a dash of Moby Dick. I enjoyed the shadowland feel to the story. ![]()
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