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1{{SugarWiki/Heartwarming|Moments}} page for ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness''
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3* Geologist William Dyer, though initially spooked upon discovering the remnants of the extraterrestrial Elder Things' Antarctic civilization, concludes that--uniquely in a Lovecraft work--their alien nature did not mean they were evil[[note]]that designation belonging instead to their creations the shoggoths, which became corrupt and destroyed them[[/note]]:
4-->''After all, they were not evil things of their kind. They were the men of another age and another order of being'' [...] ''They had not been even savages--for what indeed had they done?'' [...] ''God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star spawn--whatever they had been, they were men!''

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