.
" 'I know not
what is coming,
but be what it will
I will go to it laughing.
Better to sleep with
a sober cannibal th
an a drunk Christia
n •It is not down on
any map; true place
s never are. • Tell m
e not of blasphemy,
man; I'd strike the
sun if it insulted me.
... and Heaven have
mercy on us all-Pres
bytarians and Pagans
alike for we are all
somehow dreadfully
broken, and sadly n
eed mending • There
are certain occasions
in this strange mixed
affair we call life
when a man takes this
whole universe for a vast Practical
joke, though the wit thereof he but deepl
y discerns, and more than suspects that th
e Joke is at no body's expense
t h a n his own.' "
Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 11:54 AM UTC
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" 'I know not
what is coming,
but be what it will
I will go to it laughing.
Better to sleep with
a sober cannibal th
an a drunk Christia
n •It is not down on
any map; true place
s never are. • Tell m
e not of blasphemy,
man; I'd strike the
sun if it insulted me.
... and Heaven have
mercy on us all-Pres
bytarians and Pagans
alike for we are all
somehow dreadfully
broken, and sadly n
eed mending • There
are certain occasions
in this strange mixed
affair we call life
when a man takes this
whole universe for a vast Practical
joke, though the wit thereof he but deepl
y discerns, and more than suspects that th
e Joke is at no body's expense
t h a n his own.' "
