just the first panel is amazing, it's a great concept, impactful and make your imagination run in overdrive
but the rest of the story is better than anything I could come up with, it's terrifying and yet somehow almost reassuring ? Like we have a clear limit given to us, we don't have to worry about anything past that
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davidparkerstrahl
Nov 30
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 new dark age.
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Joshua Lowe
a day ago
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the Human mind to correlate all its contents...
just the first panel is amazing, it's a great concept, impactful and make your imagination run in overdrive
but the rest of the story is better than anything I could come up with, it's terrifying and yet somehow almost reassuring ? Like we have a clear limit given to us, we don't have to worry about anything past that
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 new dark age.