And What He Says is "Cthulhu F'tagn"

John Joseph Adams, editorial assistant at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, launches The Slush God Speaketh, the latest sci-fi insider's blog. It's still building up steam, but shows promise. Plus he got to have dinner with Harlan Ellison and Bruce Sterling, lucky bastard.

Anyway, while I was looking up the spelling of "f'tagn," I found this gem:

Yes, Virgina, there is a Great Cthulhu. He exists as certainly as the cold unfeelingness of the cosmos exits, and you know that this meaninglessness abounds and gives to your life its highest absurdity. Alas! how comfortable would be the world if there were no Cthulhu! It would be as comforting as if a Santa Claus truly did care and reward children for doing good. There would be childlike faith then, a world of sweet believable poetry and romance to make existence idyllic and appealing. The external light with which childhood fills the world would never end.