future-crab:

In retrospect, it’s pretty funny that the two things in the Magnus Archives that the ‘encase it in cement’ strategy were used against were:

  1. an immortal supernatural entity trying to spread a deadly plague to bring about the apocalypse, and
  2. a very large pig

Gertrude Robinson, remembering how her friend sacrificed himself to save humanity from a world-ending pestilence and wrote to her in his dying moments to explain everything he’d done: “Oh, I know EXACTLY how to deal with this pig.”