Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.

“A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred…”

“The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night,…”

“ان ما لا نستطيع الاقتراب منه مضافاً الى ما لانستطيع النفاذ فيه .... وان ما لانست…”

“Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good God.”