From "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928) by H. P. Lovecraft:
"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."
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From Conjure Wife (1943) by Fritz Leiber:
Oh, it was a wonderful day all right, one of those days when reality becomes a succession of such bright and sharp images that you are afraid that any moment you will poke a hole in the gorgeous screen and glimpse the illimitable, unknown blackness it films; when everything seems so friendly and right that you tremble lest a sudden searing flash of insight reveal to you the massed horror and hate and brutality and ignorance on which life rests.
How many more can you cite?
Jay
5 February 2023
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