" The most merciful thing in the world , I think , is the inability of the human mind to correlate all of its contents . We live on a placid Island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity , and it was not meant we should voyage far . The sciences , each straining in its own direction , have hitherto harmed us little ; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality , and our frightful position therein , that we shall either go mad from the revelation of flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age . "
H.P Lovecraft , The Call of Cthulhu
Isn't his writing just utterly beautiful? He wasn't a very conventionally handsome man, but the way he could write I think made him very attractive in many ways.
ReplyDeleteI thought how special that paragraph was too . Your right , it is actually beautiful , and so true as well .
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