John Derbyshire, monger of gloom, over at National Review Online, is talking about Howard Philips Lovecraft.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzBhMTg4YzA0ZDUyYTc5ODNmYmY0YTBhNzNmYWYzZjM=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...
Published on September 17, 2009 20:32