A cheery holiday message from H.P. Lovecraft:
"Glad to hear that you had a pleasant Christmas, & the coming year may prove a fruitful and congenial one for you … All religious or other systems assigning mankind an important place in the universe are obviously primitive myths – no matter how widely & persistently perpetuated. So far as any real evidence goes, the cosmos is simply a perpetual field of interacting streams of force amidst which the galactic universe, the solar system, this tiny earth, the principle of animal life, & the human species are nothing more than momentary accidents."
- HPL (in a letter, 16 January 1935).
Here's hoping that 2022 will be a better one for the accidental human species on this tiny earth!
Credit: the passage was posted a couple of days ago by "H.P. Lovecraft" on FB.
ReplyDeleteI just found out yesterday (it's already Monday morning in my time zone) that this year, the 26th was NOT Boxing Day. By royal decree, if the 26th is a Sunday, the following Monday is Boxing Day in the UK and Commonwealth countries. The more you know!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I hope the holidays were good for you and your family! Here's to a good (if ultimately pointless and accidental) new year in 2022!
Thanks for the info! Makes sense that Boxing Day isn't on a Sunday.
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