astropolis

'' into the north window of my chamber glows the pole star with uncanny light ... and in the autumn of the year, i sit by the casement and watch that star ... winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, ... sometimes, when it is cloudy i can sleep ...

'' and it was under a horned waning moon that i saw the city for the first time, still and somnolent did it lie, on a strange plateau in a hollow betwixt strange peaks. of ghastly marble were its walls and in the marble streets were marble pillars, ... overhead scarce ten degrees from the zenith, glowed that watching pole star ... upon my memory was graven the vision of the city ...

'' the pole star, evil and monstrous, leers down from the black vault, watching hideously like an insane eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey.''

h.p.lovecraft, polaris.