Time to be honest for a second....

[son_of_a_mac]

When I was 12 I tried to kill myself. Numerous times. I was never successful, obviously. I gave up my active pursuit of the afterlife with a new found dedication. No, not to life, but to satisfy my own curiosity. Fascinated with the world and its inevitable course I resigned myself to live only to discover what the future had in store. I am sad to

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[water_solutions]

  There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.
-H.P. Lovecraft, Celephaïs (1920)

I'd hate to ruin the perfection of an unadulterated piece of writing with muddled commentary or elaboration, but even the most solid works require a bit of adoration for they are only perfect within themselves -which does not help me to explain myself. The erasure of humanity will be a slow, prolonged dying unless there is enough fortune that a quick disease or mass nuclear warfare happens before the end. I figure it's best to enjoy it while it lasts and to do our best to preserve what is left for future generations so that they have the same range of opportunities - if not more - than we have!

-mat

-mat