“Give me enough words, enough attendant gravity, and I might fall into myself forever, crushed infinitely flat by my own hubris. It'd be a neat trick, I admit. I'd pay to see it — but from a safe distance, of course.”

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

To Charles Fort, With Love (2005)

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