![]() That’s not a color you wear if you want to blend in. They both want to keep to themselves, yet the man’s wearing yellow. Whether or not they’re the same person (and I’d argue they’re not), the man and the narrator share a divide in their nature. ![]() ![]() Talk about an opening! The first line out of the narrator’s mouth is, “I am forced into speech…” and because Culbard opens in silence, with a character who’s trying to conceal his identity, it doesn’t feel like hyperbole. The headline reads, “Starkweather-Moore Expedition to the Antarctic.” This is when the man in the yellow suit starts talking, or at least the narrator does. We watch him buy a newspaper at a subway station in Boston. Sinister figures don’t wear yellow suits. His face is obscured, but Curious George. ![]() Lovecraft’s novella, there’s a man in a yellow suit. Culbard’s At the Mountains of Madness opens in silence. ![]()
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