“For a moment the sense of spiritual lassitude – of the emptiness of life – vanished before this picture of broken effort – of a small human force battling pluckily, yet in vain, against the impersonal and pitiless Potencies of Inanimate Nature – and he found himself again, his normal self.”

“For a moment the sense of spiritual lassitude – of the emptiness of life – vanished before this picture of broken effort – of a small human force battling pluckily, yet in vain, against the impersonal and pitiless Potencies of Inanimate Nature – and he found himself again, his normal self.”

— Algernon Blackwood