When the spaniards came they had to give everything they saw a name. This is the first duty of any explorer-a duty and a privilege. You must name a thing before you can note it on your hand-drawn map.

John Steinbeck - East of Eden

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H.P. Lovecraft — The Call of Cthulhu