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Re: Source of HPL's coordinates for Great Race ruins?
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Pinku Basudei
Dec 17, 2020, 2:51:00 AM12/17/20
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On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 04:50:08 +0000
Donald G. Davis <dgd...@blackhole.nyx.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know why HPL selected "20o 3' 14" South Latitude, 125o
> 0' 39" East Longitude" for the location of the Great Race's city? I've
> looked at that location in Google Earth, and seen a vast desert of
> shifting dunes on rocky soil just as described in "The Shadow Out of
> Time." The site looks perfectly appropriate, but how did Lovecraft learn
> about it?
> --Donald Davis
I'm guessing now but perhaps because the site was remote and devoid of any other major historical settlements?
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/ Pinku
Donald G. Davis <dgd...@blackhole.nyx.net> wrote:
> Does anyone know why HPL selected "20o 3' 14" South Latitude, 125o
> 0' 39" East Longitude" for the location of the Great Race's city? I've
> looked at that location in Google Earth, and seen a vast desert of
> shifting dunes on rocky soil just as described in "The Shadow Out of
> Time." The site looks perfectly appropriate, but how did Lovecraft learn
> about it?
> --Donald Davis
I'm guessing now but perhaps because the site was remote and devoid of any other major historical settlements?
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/ Pinku
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