picks you up and turns you 180 degrees, fixing nothing
wait. uhhhh fuck that didn’t… i need a geometer!!
Is r'lyeh hyperbolic? Or does Lovecraft just use the word "non-Euclidean" to mean "scary and hard to understand"?
as a kid, i always took "non-Euclidian geometry" to mean "things that your eyes tell you are parallel are, in walking past them, quite clearly Not" and then imagined all the weird effects that would have on how things might look to an observer, both as a human moving around and as a human watching another human move around and "disappear" behind something when they Shouldn't. things like imagining how a statue might appear entirely different from one angle vs another in a way that isn't possible in Euclidian space. and i spent a lot of time imagining the perceptions of critters that were used to that, including how they might perceive Euclidian beings.