"There were nauseous musical instruments; stringed, brass, and woodwind, on which St. John and I sometimes produced dissonances of exquisite morbidity and cacodaemoniacal ghastliness; whilst in a multitude of inlaid ebony cabinets reposed the most incredible and unimaginable variety of tomb-loot ever assembled by human madness and perversity." -H.P. Lovecraft

“...I take a very dim view of this.” - Captain Gregorio De Falco of the Italian Coast Guard to Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia