It is their nature, beautiful and simple. That you would destroy such beings, Mr. Lincoln, such superior creatures, seems madness to me.โ โThat you speak of them with such reverence, Mr. Poe, seems madness to me.โ "Can you imagine it? Can you imagine seeing the universe through such eyes? Laughing in the face of time and deathโthe world your Garden of Eden? Your library? Your harem?
Seth Grahame-SmithSometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.
Seth Grahame-Smith