Dr. George Angell. These findings, taken in conjunction with the reported findings of Dr. William Dyer [@mnts] from his 1930 expedition to the Antarctic continent, paint an incredible picture. As they describe it, somewhere in the oceans of the south pacific dwell a dormant race of ancient cyclopean monsters.

The respective works of Angell and Dyer were received with an appropriately generous quantity of incredulity. The published accounts of Dyer’s adventures in Antarctica have been dismissed as being due hallucinations incurred by a high-altitude cerebral edema. Thurston’s manuscript, on the other hand, has often been interpreted as being the creative work of a paranoid mind in the grip of some tragic delirium. The year preceding his death (and the publication of his manuscript) was spent in the clutches ofreaction had taken something out of his soul. Then came the storm of April 2nd, and a gathering of the clouds about his consciousness. There is a sense of spectral whirling through liquid gulfs of infinity, of dizzying rides through reeling universes on a comets tail, and of hysterical plunges from the pit to the moon and from the moon back again to the pit, all livened by a cachinnating chorus of the distorted, hilarious elder gods and the green, bat-winged mocking imps of Tartarus.
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> ...From that time till his rescue on the 12th the man remembers little...

It is clear from the testimony of the people who rescued him that when he was discovered, Johansen was in a state of extreme agitation. From his own recounting of events,