RE: Fields of Madness (#fiftywords)
Well, it's nice to know that (although it may sound weird...); so do I—the void, the abyss, the heart of darkness... I have a thing with them all. There is this quote I like a lot from Poe, about how us, mere mortals, shouldn't be willing to explore those places... it might be enjoyable due the subject is on the table:
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell -- but the imagination of man is no Carathis, to explore with impunity its every cavern. Alas! the grim legion of sepulchral terrors cannot be regarded as altogether fanciful -- but, like the Demons in whose company Afrasiab made his voyage down the Oxus, they must sleep, or they will devour us -- they must be suffered to slumber, or we perish.
You're welcome, it was my pleasure to read your story.
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I had not read that quote; I'm not familiar with Poe apart from the one poem everyone knows - The Raven - but I do enjoy it! It's fitting. :)