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He tried to think like a detective. He was bad at it.
Folklore was self-generating.
“Everything’s fit to be worshipped.”
Not many cults have had their reformation.”
A city living in its own afterlife.
And just because angels keep their ancient places and every stone, cigarette packet, tor and town has its deities, doesn’t mean there’s nothing special about London.
“You have to persuade the universe that things make sense a certain way.
What if faiths are exactly what they are? And mean exactly what they say?”
This is how we are brave: we worship them anyway.
city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.
you should consider the possibility that faith might be a way of thinking more rigorously than the woolly bullshit of most atheists. It’s not an intellectual mistake.”
