h a l f b a k e r yClearly this is a metaphor for something.
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Actually meaning wierd or unusual.
Eldritch baseballs have unusual shapes, unlike a normal baseball. Sphericons, cubes tetrahedrons, discs, toroids, spirals, pyramids. Different geometrical shapes would affect the hit in different ways. I imagine if you hit a spring-shaped baseball on end, it would
do pretty well, especially because of the rubber core.
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They also hint at dark blasphemous, timeless things that lurk beneath the safe-plates, mocking us from their dreamless sleep, biding their time before their return from lost aeons and gibbering tracks of endless time. |
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange aeons even death may die.
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Are you speaking of bogeymen hiding underneath the bases? |
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"dark", "blasphemous", and "safe-plates"... |
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Yes. For me, Eldritch = H.P. Lovecraft. Gives me an idea though. I really like the association (even if it's just mine) between Baseball and un-namable evil. |
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Sounds creepy. Ahhh... Lovecraft.... |
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You have deep thoughts, El Dorado Jr. |
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"And the shambling, mishapen heap of flesh steps up to bat." |
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Those would be Non-Euclidean trajectories, thank you. And I am certain that the dwarf umpire never shouts, but exclusively gibbers and titters. |
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Why would anyone want a shrill baseball that nags the government for entitlements while blaming men for everything? Oh wait. That's an Estrich baseball. Sorry. |
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Really one of the best things about this is the definition of eldritch as oblong. Not only is oblong a great word, but it puts a lot of horror fiction in a whole new light. |
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Man, getting hit with a round baseball is painful enough. Imagine one of those tetrahedrons slamming you in the eye at 90 mph! By the way, what's a toroid? |
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I thought it was like a dog toroid, the sort I often find on my front lawn in the morning. In fact, those dog toroids are eldritch in the possibly oblong sense. They are also donuts, in that the neighbor's dog donut. |
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What is the difference between a toroid and a torus? |
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Toroid==having properties like a torus. Just like spheroid==having properties like a sphere. |
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Oh. I'm always learning things here, if not very useful things. |
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