No image prompt today, so I chose my own. Just a few short rantings of a madman.
Because really, aren't we all a bit mad?
Manifesto
It has been written that the most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. That we live in ignorance a part we play of the awesome grandeur which is the cosmic cycle. There are times men see beyond the veil, men we call mad, but they see something.
What it is that they see is always just beyond their ken, horrors they could imagine, horrors they couldn't resist. Just horrors.
So we read of the mad scientist creating a man of of elecricity and spare body parts.
Seamonsters, attacking sailing ships should they draw near the edge of the world.
Of the unholy terror drinking blood, resisted only by the holy power of church. Not so close.
Of the thing at sea, larger than the greatest whale, brought down by a great steamship. Closer. The guy who wrote that one really gets it.
Each story is of survival, even if not hope. We always vanquish the monsters. At least the best of us are. Sometimes someone from Africa or Israel or Poland has some kind of ancestral knowledge, but it's always the scientist who vanquishes them. The one who studies. The smart, civilized one with the books.
Civilized I am, and smart. I can make connections. The stories have lasted a long, long time. I've read all of them. About the thin places, about the elder ones from beyond. And one thing I know - they're always stronger than we are, but just barely. Beyond our ken, but not too far.
Today we'll learn more about what lies beyond, and what is beyond our ken today.
On, it doesn't matter where it came from. Say it's an old book, or an inscription on a relic in the museum. You know, one of the ones they keep in the back where the patrons don't get to see. It doesn't matter.
What matters is that I know.
What matters is that I'm tired of being laughed at.
I know things. I know that what's beyond our ken today is far and away beyond what was beyond our ken a decade ago.
Let's see what's on the other side of this veil. Just like some humans are better than others, some monsters are better.
This monster will be the right one to let in.
I can tell because it's white.
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