preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already. If I be sane, then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place.
Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
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Conventions are, indeed, all that shield us from the shivering void, though often they do so but poorly and desperately.
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