Зов Ктулху / The Call of Cthulhu. Уровень 2

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Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт. Зов Ктулху / The Call of Cthulhu. Уровень 2

Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The Call of Cthulhu

I. The Horror In Clay

II. The Tale of Inspector Legrasse

III. The Madness from the Sea

Howard Phillips Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness

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I think, that the most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of infinite black seas. Will we voyage far? The sciences harmed us little; but some day the parts of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying views of reality, that we’ll go mad from the revelation. Or we’ll flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age[1].

Theosophists[2] tell about awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle where our world and human race form transient incidents. Their strange suggestions freeze the blood. When I think of them and when I dream of them, forbidden ages chill me and madden me. Like all dread glimpses of truth, that glimpse appeared from an accidental parts of separated things. In this case, from an old newspaper and the notes of a dead professor. I hope that no one else will collect those parts. Certainly, if I live, I will never add a link in that terrible chain. I think that the professor, too, intented to keep silent. He wanted to destroy his notes but sudden death stopped him.

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“In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.[43]”

Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to hang them. The rest were taken to various hospitals. All denied ritual murders, and said that the killing was done by Black Winged Ones[44] which came to them from their immemorial meeting-place in the haunted wood. But nobody wanted to talk about these mysterious allies. What the police learned, came mainly from the very old mestizo named Castro[45]. Castro sailed to different ports and talked with undying leaders of the cult in the mountains of China.

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