To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street.
The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?