“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure out it’s the last we’ll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.”

                     --Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin, 2009

“STOP! DON’T READ THIS SINISTER SHOCKER! NOT UNLESS YOU’RE PREPARED TO LIVE ON THE EDGE OF A NIGHTMARE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! WHERE THERE IS AN UNENDURABLE SCREAM BEHIND EVERY LAUGH! CRUSHING DARKNESS BEHIND EVERY LIGHT! AND YAWNING GRAVES BENEATH YOUR FEET!”

                     --Robert Kanigher, THE PHANTOM STRANGER, Vol. 1, No. 4, 
                            "There Is Laughter in Hell This Day," 1969

(Posted simultaneously to “Jelly-Town!”)