Electrolite: Fighting Nigerian spam

March 2, 2003

Fighting Nigerian spam with H. P. Lovecraft and NYPD Blue.

Still not sleeping well; I continue to dream of deep unplumbed abysses, of eldritch amorphous shapes playing blasphmous piping tunes, and hideous cyclopian ruins of black basalt deep below a sunless sea. And always the feeling of being watched. Mr. Ward’s death is obviously a great burden upon me, and is producing these unsettling imaginings. Even at breakfast this morning with Andy Sipowicz I felt these odd intrusions into my reality. The man sitting at the next table provoked profound feelings of dread—something in his repellant visage seemingly familiar and alien at the same time, and the feeling lingered even after he left. Maybe I am working too hard, as I have these feelings more and more often. It will be good to come to Nigeria and relax. The hospitality of African people speaks for itself, as you yourself have shown by including me in this deal.

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rea ::: (view all by) ::: March 03, 2003, 03:00 PM:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its 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 its 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 light into the peace and safety of a dark new age.

Alan Bostick ::: (view all by) ::: March 04, 2003, 12:27 AM:

Umm, rea, I think the Tolkien-as-written-by thread is over thataway in Making Light.

Alan Bostick ::: (view all by) ::: March 04, 2003, 12:27 AM:

Umm, rea, I think the Tolkien-as-written-by thread is over thataway in Making Light.

Avram ::: (view all by) ::: March 04, 2003, 12:35 AM:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the Internet to correlate all its contents....

Mary Kay ::: (view all by) ::: March 04, 2003, 10:20 AM:

IJWTS that I really enjoyed reading Rea's contribution. Applause. (I thought I posted this yesterday but that post appears to have been lost in vasty depths.)