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Such great powers or beings, there may be conceivably a survival.

The survival of a hugely remote period when consciousness was manifested perhaps in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity, forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods.

Gods.

Monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds.

Mistical,

beings of all sorts of monsters. all the The 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 someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying

vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein.

We shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

That's a great beginning.

That is a great beginning.

That was of course the opening quote from H.P. Lovecraft's signature piece of fiction,

The Call of Kifoulu.

That was read by Andrew Lehman, who is also joining us as a guest today.

Hello there. This is a first time. Yeah, weird. A guest and reader at the same time.

That is efficiency. Yeah, because I made such a fuss. I of course am Chad Fyfer and I'm

Chris Lanky and you are joining us at the H.P. Lovecraft.com.

Andrew directed the 2005 film of the same name.

Yes, yes, I did.

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