What kind of attitude does Dyer take towards the Elder things( disgust, admiration)
“when Danforth and I saw the freshly glistening and reflectively iridescent
black slime which clung thickly to those headless bodies and stank obscenely with that new unknown odour whose cause only a diseased fancy could envisage—clung to those bodies and sparkled less voluminously on a smooth part of the accursedly re-sculptured wall in a series of grouped dots—we understood the quality of cosmic fear to its uttermost
depths. It was not fear of those four missing others”
At the mountains of Madness , this part of the passage shows abjection. Dyer looks at the body in disgust and had the look of a un-dead corpse with black slime and some form of dots which indicate that the creature had some sort infectious disease. This passage gives clue where in the tunnel the other crew member went missing and now to see all that headless bodies that are decaying and has a stank waste. Dyer shows a form of hesitation as he observes the madness that is in front of him. This Gothic space as Lovecraft describes as a tunnel as vaulted and arch passage ways that are dark and cold.
I agree that the dead corpses may be the bodies that were missing from the camp and also the way that Dyer looked at these creatures actually reminds me of the book we read earlier “Frankenstein”. The reason for this is because we know that after the mad scientist made the monster he was disgusted of the creature. He looked at it with disgust and felt like he made a mistake. He also looked at it as if it was an undead corpse.