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Quotes from Classics
Hiro:
While waiting for TUC, here's a beautiful piece from John Crowley's 'Little, Big':
"Smoky told me, once, about this place, in India or China, where ages ago when somebody got the death sentence, they used to give him this drug, like a sleeping drug, only it's a poison, but very slow-acting; and the person falls asleep first, deep asleep, and has these very vivid dreams. He dreams a long time, he forgets he's dreaming even; he dreams for days. He dreams that he's on a journey, or that some such thing has happened to him. And then, somewhere along, the drug is so gentle and he's so fast asleep that he never notices when, he dies. But he doesn't know it. The dream changes, maybe; but he doesn't even know it's a dream, so. He just goes on. He only thinks it's another country."
Redeagl:
--- Quote from: Madness on October 09, 2016, 04:59:32 pm ---Thanks, Hiro. Next time I talk to Cam I'll remind him to check this thread out.
Classic for me anyway, HP Lovecraft:
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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"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."
My favourite Lovecraft quote. I shiver every time I read it.
Hiro:
--- Quote from: Redeagl on August 14, 2017, 06:03:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: Madness on October 09, 2016, 04:59:32 pm ---Thanks, Hiro. Next time I talk to Cam I'll remind him to check this thread out.
Classic for me anyway, HP Lovecraft:
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
--- End quote ---
"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."
My favourite Lovecraft quote. I shiver every time I read it.
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Good one Red! Very Bakker-y as well.
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