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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2013 18:33:16 GMT -5
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that 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 of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -From "Call of Cthulhu"
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Post by badmedicine on May 27, 2013 20:24:30 GMT -5
I remember his stories from the old "Weird Tales" pulp comics I used to get at a local 2nd hand shop. Pretty lurid for a kid back then, LOL.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2013 16:30:55 GMT -5
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Post by badmedicine on May 28, 2013 19:45:03 GMT -5
H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything! I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams. I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess. We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight.
Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be. Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination. To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth. I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me. Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end. There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street. Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent. But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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