The problem.

“The universe is only a furtive arrangement of elementary particles. A presage of transition to chaos. Which will carry it away in the end. The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure ‘Victorian fictions’. Only egotism exists.”

H.P. Lovecraft quite beautifully relates the fundamental problem of existence. The vast majority of people never consider it, and of those that do, the vast majority manage to sweep the thought aside and avoid it thereafter.

But what of we few, we who cannot help but realize this, we who are unable to continue the illusion of a higher order, of a greater purpose, or of any purpose at all?

Lovecraft died poor, alone, and miserable.

~ by lostinthedark on May 15, 2008.