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The Inhumanity of the Universe
In conspiracy against the human race, a non fiction book that he wrote just to address some of these ideas directly, Thomas Legotte describes how the most mundane and unthreatening objects become uncannily horrific if you stare at them long enough. The longer this inspection goes on, the more we become lost in a paradoxical state of knowing and not knowing what was once known and familiar. And it is then that the question, why should there be something rather than nothing may become lost in the inexplicable, even preposterous, ambition to resolve it without losing our minds to the uncanny. If you want an idea of what it's like to live that way, go read lovecraft when he's