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[darchildre]

Things I find irrationally endearing:

Horror writers who use the word "cyclopean". Possibly, it is supposed to be a scary word. Alas, that doesn't so much work for me. But I love it nonetheless.


Things I should know better than to do:

Eat breakfast while reading Lovecraftian horror. (Fungus and bloated frogs and strange puddles of milky fluid and suddenly I am not so hungry anymore, y'know?)

Comments

[darchildre]

Hello!

I believe cyclopean can also mean gigantic or vast, as in (to use a thematically appropriate example) "cyclopean and many-columned Yha-nthlei".

[silveradept]

That, too. I guess I think there are better words. Although, maybe as a horror writer, you're trying to deliberately invoke the image of the cyclops, in all his Homeric terror. Although, that particular Cyclops wasn't the sharpest stake in the bag.