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I've read that most of Lovecraft's is derived from the horror at realizing how insanely large in both space and time the universe is. The unspeakable horrors a
by riffraff 7y ago
I've read that most of Lovecraft's is derived from the horror at realizing how insanely large in both space and time the universe is.
The unspeakable horrors and mind defying deities in his oeuvre are effectively just reiteration of the "the human race is an irrelevant blip on the universe's radar" concept.
- programd 7y agoWell that just cries out for a quote :) "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." - H.P. Lovecraft "The Call of Cthulhu"
- riffraff 7y agobeautiful, thank you!