The moon (a otherworldly being in and of itself that is the origin of many of Lovecraft’s creatures) shows the death of civilization through the reflection of the lake. He (due to Lovecraft’s sexism and racism, I assume that every narrator is a white man) describes what he can see from the light of the moon. What the Moon Brings flows into a similar vein. The land holds the longest memory and will outlive and outlast all. The ultimate god, the ultimate truth is the earth. The gods themselves look over everything, but they forget as well, which makes them insignificant as well. The meaning behind the vignette is that, far in the future, the deeds and actions of humans are forgotten and the only thing that remains is earth. They built the ruins and their name was Man. The Daemon says that he is Memory and what he remembers is that they were insignificant and their deeds were forgotten as soon as they were preformed. Two gods are having a discussion, and where one cant remember the past, asks the other “Daemon” about the beings who built the original ruins. Ruins that are over run and the only inhabitants are apes. In Memory we are shown a shambles of a world. Both are no more than 2 pages a piece, but both are full of meaning. “Memory” is a look forward and “What the Moon Brings” is a naval gaze of the apocalypse. These two are merely vignettes, minute glimpses into the world that Lovecraft was in the process of creating the strange and the cosmic.
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