"The Horror..the Horror." (a la Joseph Conrad and "The Heart of Darkness")

There are those sudden glimpses of the truth, staggering...blinding; insightful revelations mingling attraction and revulsion, beauty and fear...like Saul on the road to Tarsus...until finally, mercifully, we are able to pull away, re-assert our life affirming illusions and self-deceptions, the primary of which is: human life is meaningful.