"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."
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926.
It's easy nowadays to find out which famous people you share your birthday with. It means basically nothing - it's pure coincidence of course. Add to that the inaccuracies of our Gregorian calendar system and it probably means less than nothing. But it's still interesting to think that you were born on the same day as someone everyone knows.
Since it's Zach's birthday today I looked up his Birthday Mates, those (other) famous people born on August 20th. Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Cool. Isaac Hayes. Shaft, cool too. Don King. Mr Crazy Hair? Ooookaaaay. Salvatore Quasimodo...whomever that is. Benjamin Harrison, dead president. Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Now THAT'S AWESOME!
Zach shares a birthdate with H.P. Lovecraft, one of the great horror writers of all time!!! This dude was right up there with Poe. The photo above is a picture of H.P. at about Zach's age. Innocent looking, isn't he? Not the kind of kid you would peg as growing up to spawn the Cthulhu Mythos and The Necromonicon.
Now, of course my good buddy Howard is also an August 20-ite, and I would be remiss if I were to leave him out of this discussion, obscure as he is :)
Happy Birthday you crazy bunch of disparate 8/20'ers!!!
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quasimodo was the hunchback of notre dame ~
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