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 relevation or flee from the
deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
We have gathered here today to pay final respects to our honored dead.
And yet it should be noted in the midst of our sorrow, this death takes
place in the shadow of a new light, the sunrise of a new world, a world
that our beloved comrade gave his life to protect and nourish....
