The icy heart at the center of McNaughton’s trash fiction masterpieces is the new world promised by the Older God Zurvan. He will eliminate all contrasts and contradictions, making Earth a planet with no prisons, no mental hospitals, no darkness, and no war. Sounds good, until you realize that he will also eliminate the difference between good and evil; life and death will blur, and there will be no more freedom, because it will also be slavery. Zurvan is a vampire of life’s essence, the great leveler, the same-maker. He is the ultimate expression of the hippie summer of love: the loss of
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