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Kyle paused for one beat more than he wished to. He couldn’t decide whether Solomon was the devil or his saviour.
An absence of more than light hovered in the wings of his mind. Like a descent into the great cold depths of lightless oceans beneath icecaps and skies without stars, a curious unbreathable gravity pulled him down and down and down, through himself, then out of himself.
Why is it so dark? The temple. The air of the temple is still inside your eyes.
I want a life and a world filled with light.
They were all misfits and outcasts. And they made him feel his time with them had to be kept short, as if they were contagious.
Us, as people, she hated it. Did everything to get rid of us, inside. It’s why she took the kids. She didn’t want us inside our own children. She wanted them empty.’
‘I bin places. They took me to places. ’Orrible places. All the birds is dead. Everyfin’ is on fire, like. Dogs are cryin’. People screamin’. Being burned. It’s hell, mate. They’s tryin’ to take me to hell wiv ’em. I can see it all the time now when I’m awake. It’s fuckin’ stuck in my ’ead!’
But I thought all dogs go to heaven :(
I would like to say you are fortunate, because I will show you a forgotten masterpiece. But I cannot say that. Because the fact that you get to see it means you are involved too. Which is no privilege at all.’
‘I can see that you do not laugh. This has your interest. Because you identify a beginning of something terrible that was to be repeated, as all terrible things are.’
Max thought highly of Jed. Jed had found the children of the mine. Jed had put Chet’s mansion under surveillance for three months. Jed had tracked down everyone Kyle and Dan interviewed in the States. Jed got things done and Jed had guns. But Jed made Kyle nervous.
Jed sounds hot
Twentieth-century history would have been different if we’d had more luck in assassinating our tyrants.
We seem incapable of being led by any but the monstrous.
We cannot lead ourselves rationally or humanely or fairly, so we choose the most unscrupulous and egotistical to lead us.
We’re gonna whack that fuck while the light of Jesus Christ Almighty shines in our eyes.
The conclusion of the night vision’s furthest reach disintegrated at the top of the staircase, and yet upon the large figure the night vision’s dimming found a wet snout at head height. Beneath that, the great blackened belly of a sow, the teats wet with brine.
Oh hell no
