PART I: Genesis

Part I: Genesis

"When I was a child, I've caught a fleeting glimpse;

"Out of the corner of my eye;

"I'd turned to look, but it was gone;

"I cannot put my finger on it now;

"The child has grown, the dream is done;

"And I, have become, comfortably numb..."

-Pink Floyd, The Wall, "Comfortably Numb"

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal man ever dared to dream before."

-Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all it's contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in it's own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of the new dark age."

-H.P. Lovecraft, Call of Cthulhu