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Below lay the tomb world, the immutable cause-and-effect world of the demonic.
It takes a certain amount of courage, he thought, to face yourself and say with candor, I’m rotten. I’ve done evil and I will again. It was no accident; it emanated from the true, authentic me.
Isn’t a miserable reality better than the most interesting illusion?
Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real.
Women can get a man to do anything, he realized. Mother, wife, even employee; they twist us like hot little bits of thermoplastic.
“To the primitive mind,” Eldritch said, “the unclean and the holy are confused. Merged merely as taboo.
