Alphabetarion # Universe | H.P. Lovecraft, 1934

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Bowl252C2B10th2Bcentury2BSamarqand2B2528Uzbekistan25292Bor2BNishapur2B2528Iran2529
Bowl, 10th century Samarqand (Uzbekistan) or Nishapur (Iran)

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“What do we know… of the world and the universe about us? Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with a wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.”

H.P. Lovecraft, From Beyond, 1934

Written November 16, 1920, published June 1934 in The Fantasy Fan
 
 

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