Originally Posted by tore

So what if I firmly believe the Lord Cthulhu will rise from the sunken city of R'lyeh on a specific date to kill us all and then he doesn't show up? At some point, the "truth" in my head would meet actual reality (in this case; an absence of Cthulhu) and I would find myself disappointed and perhaps a little disillusioned.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.