# Guess the book

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 6, 2000, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004 "2000-11-06T21:03:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Jekeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jekeira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jekeira)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/301 "2001-01-20T01:50:16Z")

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Well, since I’m not the only remaining “Guess the Book” fan, I’m going to try to jump-start this baby. Let’s hope this works.  
NEW QUOTE!!  
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

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**Author:** ![DynoSaur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DynoSaur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DynoSaur)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/302 "2001-01-20T01:57:44Z")

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Ooooh…

That sounds quite Lovecraftian.

Just about the only story I can name is “The Colour Out of Space”, though…and that doesn’t seem right.

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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/303 "2001-01-20T03:39:44Z")

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The Call of the Cthulu. Final answer, Jekeria.

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**Author:** ![Jekeira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@Jekeira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jekeira)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guess-the-book/40004/304 "2001-01-20T04:15:57Z")

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Zoggie is exactly correct: Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu.”

Next! (Howzabout a nice easy one, Zog …)

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