New Idea!

So this is a phenomenon known as “Fata Morgana”

Essentially it is a mirage, but it looks like an alternate dimension.

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies, But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead, Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa. —"Cassilda’s Song" in The King in Yellow Act 1, Scene 2

Add in the fact that there is another mirage that can happen,

Now, in the book “The King in Yellow” specifically the story “The Demoiselle d'Ys” a young man ends up in a weird place with a bunch of weird characters, and one is named “Hastur.” The ending makes the whole thing seem like it was an illusion.

What if Carcosa is not another planet? What if it is a dimension that exist right here simultaneously with ours? What if it is a mirage, that we can only see in certain circumstances, and thus why it is called ‘lost Carcosa.”

The ol’ bastard’s birthday

It is that old Horrid Phobias Lovecraft’s birthday today. And I am delighted to be seeing his ideas of cosmic horror being torn from his cold, shriveled, horrid hands. That the concepts of the unknown aren’t being co-opted into HP’s own prejudices.