LOVECRAFT: We were at a beach, one of those dreary wave-shattered places of ferocious cold that dot the coast outside Kingston. Everyone had matching towels. I went under a dock, and there I saw a rock. BUT IT WASN'T A ROCK! It was far worse, something I cannot and MUST not recall!
HPL [scribbling more frantically]: Put on your nose guard! Put on the life guard! The five dimensional solids! There goes the sting ray! There goes a manta ray! There goes a jellyfish! Ia, Ia... Watch out for that piranha! There goes a narwhal! Heh, heh... ever heer tell uv a SHOGGOTH?