There never is a moment when there is not some comet in the sky. Virtually there is no year in which several new comets are not discovered, so plentiful are they. Luminous fleas on a vast black dog - in popular impressions, there is no realization of the extent to which this solar system is flea-bitten.

The Book of the Damned, Chapter X (p. 134), Boni & Liveright. 1919