“It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.”

—  H.P. Lovecraft

Fiction, The Call of Cthulhu (1926)
Context: It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes. As it was, lacking their original letters, I half suspected the compiler of having asked leading questions, or of having edited the correspondence in corroboration of what he had latently resolved to see.

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