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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

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.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little;


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

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.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

But it is not from them that there came the single glimpse of forbidden aeons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things—in this case an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead professor.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out; certainly, if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a chain.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

I think that the professor, too, intended to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not sudden death seized him.


RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Addy - 26th May 2026

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RE: Get Back Challenge: Post-a-thon - Sunlight1232 - 26th May 2026

My knowledge of the thing began in the winter of 1926–27 with the death of my grand-uncle George Gammell Angell, Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.