The Much Discussed Couplet

“No book had ever really hinted of it, though the deathless Chinamen said that there were double meanings in the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred which the initiated might read as they chose, especially the much discussed couplet:

‘That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange eons even death may die.’

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 1, The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft

The Unexplainable Couplet

“In a point of time, the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, was the first character of the Cthulhu Mythos to the make his appearance; this was in strongly Dunsanian tale, The Nameless City (1921), fashioned about the unexplainable couplet.”

‘That is not dead which can eternal lie,
and with strange eons even death may die.’

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Volume 1, The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft