"It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measu..." - and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinkers perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.

It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man

— and we may only say that there is about certain outlines and entities a power of symbolism and suggestion which acts frightfully on a sensitive thinkers perspective and whispers terrible hints of obscure cosmic relationships and unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision.

H.P. Lovecraft The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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