The more outre and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears to complicate a case is, … - Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.'
That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked.
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

The future was with Fate. The present was our own.

~ The Poison Belt

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.