"We note the following from H. P. Lovecraft's ``The Call of Cthulhu'':

"We note the following from H. P. Lovecraft's ``The Call of Cthulhu'':

There exists a conspiratorial organization of global reach;

It is centered around ``the undying leaders of the cult in the mountains of China'';

``Remains of Them [according to the ``deathless Chinamen''] were still to be found as Cyclopean stones in islands in the Pacific'';

``When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live'';

``the center [of the organization] lay amid the pathless deserts of Arabia, where Iram, the City of Pillars, dreams hidden and untouched'';

``It was not allied to the European witch-cult'';

The center of the interests of the cult has moved under water;

Biological abnormalities are of great interest to the cult; so is non-Euclidian geometry.

We conclude that Lovecraft was misinformed --- his informants do not appear to have been the most stable individuals --- and that Cthulhu did not come from the stars, it will go to them. Cthulhu is a starship."

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