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It wearied Carter to see how solemnly people tried to make earthly reality out of old myths which every step of their boasted science confuted.

Only the sombre philosophy of the Decadents could hold us, and this we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our penetrations.

veritable gateway to realms of unfathomed horror and inconceivable abnormality.

Besides, he added, my constant talk about "unnamable" and "unmentionable" things was a very puerile device, quite in keeping with my lowly standing as an author. I was too fond of ending my stories with sights or sounds which paralysed my heroes' faculties and left them without courage, words, or associations to tell what they had experienced.

yet the very completeness of the stillness and the homogeneity of the landscape oppressed me with a nauseating fear.

After all, the strangest and maddest of myths are often merely symbols or allegories based upon truth...

But what weight had the dreams of mystics against the harsh wisdom of the world?

and as I watched I felt that it was in turn watching me greedily with eyes more imaginable than visible.

In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.

Though these stately old avenues were ill-surfaced and unkempt, their elm-shaded dignity had not entirely departed.

my cries were lost in the hell-born babel of the howling wind-wraiths.

and in this fascination, there was curiously disturbing element hardly to be classified or accounted for

But in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement.

It was a typical point, made in typical style, mixing pride and humility.

At Grinnell, named for Josiah Grinnell, Iowa's leading abolitionist, the reception couldn't have been more supportive.

John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament generally.

The horizons of man are incomparably narrower than that of the land on which he toils. Editor of the Nebraska journal

His notes to the outside world offered a window on an active, sympathetic, eclectic mind.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

The cooperatives seem to have ended with the advent of Europeans along the coast, Europeans who on occasion killed the cooperative dolphins. There

Like most people who actually live by a landlocked sound, bereft of hope of happiness, he had a particular aversion to any doctrines which left people without hope of happiness and told them that they lived by a landlocked sound.

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies and imagines he is telling the truth.

upon the lid in letters of gold. Then he said to the dwarfs

I've said before, Harry, no need to hide your light," said Alice, squeezing his hand. She giggled, "Dance, monkey, dance.