The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.