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(fwd) Yes, Virginia, there is a Cthulhu
On Tue, 14 Jan 97 19:30:03 EST, in rec.humor.funny [email protected]
(aurienne) wrote:
[Note - originally written by Steven Harris ([email protected]) and posted
to
alt.horror.cthulhu in April. Reprinted with his permission -
ed.]
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Dear Editor-
I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Great
Cthulhu. Papa says, "If you see it on Alt.Horror.Cthulhu, it's so,"
Please tell me the truth, is there a Great Cthulhu who will rise from
the
watery depth of the Pacific to clear the Earth of all living things?
------Virgina Marsh
Virgina, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the
fever of enlightenment given to them by a so-called "enlightened" age.
They do not believe in anything unless it carries the weight of
scientific
authority. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible
by
their little minds. Reality is that which can be cataloged and measured,
to be spooned out in rational doses to the common people. All minds,
Virgina, whether they be adult's or children's, are little. In this
vast
chaos we laughingly call the universe, man is a mere insect, a bug,
whose
intellect has as much chance of grasping the whole truth, as an ant has
of
understanding non-Euclidian geometry.
Yes, Virgina, there is a Great Cthulhu. He exists as certainly as the
cold unfeelingness of the cosmos exits, and you know that this
meaninglessness abounds and gives to your life its highest absurdity.
Alas! how comfortable would be the world if there were no Cthulhu! It
would be as comforting as if a Santa Claus truly did care and reward
children for doing good. There would be childlike faith then, a world
of
sweet believable poetry and romance to make existence idyllic and
appealing. The external light with which childhood fills the world
would
never end.
Not believe in the Great Cthulhu! You might as well not believe in
Hastur
or the Necronomicon. You might get your papa's science books and
Skeptical Inquirers to see if Cthulhu is mentioned in any historical
contexts or if R'lyeh truly does rest under the Pacific Ocean, but even
if
you did not find either mentioned in your 'holy' books, what would that
prove? Nobody sees or knows of Cthulhu, but that is no sign that there
is
no Great Cthulhu. The most real things in the world are those that we
can
not know through the senses. Can the headache of your friend be felt by
you? No, but his pain affects your life regardless. Do you feel the
angst of living a life you never wanted through any of your five senses?
No, yet the despair remains. Yet if such realities are known but are
never
seen, then why should other's ignorance of the unseen lead us to share
in
their blindness. By what right have they earned your obedience? Nobody
can conceive of the inconceivable, including your leaders of thought.
You tear apart the rattle of a baby to see what lies inside to make such
noise, but the tiny balls there can not explain or illustrate the fear
of
a hostile world, that makes that baby clutch and shake that rattle so.
Only reaching for insanity can push aside the curtain of our hopes and
view with stark madness the emptiness that lies beyond. Is that
reality?
Is that the truth? To give an answer is to replace the curtain with but
one more. And it is this, that makes the Great Cthulhu as true and as
real as any veil we place on the chaos beyond. If one must create a
meaning, why not the Great Cthulhu. At least the choice is free.
Thank Azathoth! The Great Cthulhu lives and lives forever. A thousand
years from now, Virgina, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will
continue to await the time when the stars are right again. For with
those
which eternal lie, with strange eons even death may die.
(From Editorial Page, Arkham Advertiser, 1928)
---Steven Harris
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~sh323089
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