H.P. Lovecraft
It seems he had pondered a great deal, and with alarmingly radical daring, over that triangular striated marking in the slate; reading into it certain contradictions in Nature and geological period which whetted his curiosity to the utmost, and made him avid to sink more borings and blastings in the west-stretching formation to which the exhumed fragments evidently belonged.
H.P. Lovecraft
- At the mountains of Madness
The leathery, undeteriorative, and almost indestructible quality was an inherent attribute of the thing's form of organization; and pertained to some paleogean cycle of invertebrate evolution utterly beyond our powers of speculation.
