Talk:The Nameless City
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- I awakened just at down from a pageant of horrible dreams, my ears ringing as from some metallic peal. I saw the sun peering redly through the last gusts of a little sandstorm that hovered over the nameless city, and marked the quietness of the rest of the landscape. Once more I ventured within those brooding ruins that swelled beneath the sank like an ogre
possible typo? "the sank like an" - "the sand like an". I have a few Lovecraft books, but not this story... so I can't check for sure. Motor 01:18, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
"Sand" typo and another "dawn/down" typo corrected - source 'The Del Rey "Dreams of Terror and Death" printing', Arkham House editions:
splendours[edit]
To myself I pictured all the spendours of an age so distant that Chaldaea could not recall it, and thought of Sarnath the Doomed, that stood in the land of Mnar when mankind was young, and of Ib, that was carven of grey stone before mankind existed.
spendours? not splendours? 03:18, 21 January 2008 (UTC), MIB4u
- It should be splendours[1]. There have been many other changes that need to be checked, such as these. John Vandenberg 03:30, 21 January 2008 (UTC)