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“Transpose what is done to an animal onto a human,” Silvina said in the video. “If it is disgusting, wrong, unethical, immoral, then you know what the truth is.”
how many dead things haunt us in our daily lives. “As purses, handbags, shoes—even as heads on walls. Or as roadkill, unless it’s a fox or something we haven’t seen a hundred times before. The mind renders them as setting. But now I saw them everywhere—an ongoing, everyday exhibit of dead animals and their parts. A horror show. A vast extermination of lives and minds.”
Weak men know they’re poor in virtue and take their self-knowledge as evidence others will plot against them. So they want to be the only ones who know things.
Back in the old days, they claimed salamanders were born in fire, born to fire. That if you touched one, you, too, would be consumed by flames. But unlike the salamander, you wouldn’t survive the encounter. That a poison lived in the conflagration. I was so much on fire all the time, I should’ve died.
Effective tactic: to accuse your enemy of the crime you had committed. Politicians did it all the time.
Years from now, I could imagine myself still following the ever-staler bread crumbs, convinced that just one more clue would bring me the solution.
This is how I'm feeling about this book, still reading it, sure there's a meaning to it all, but not finding it.
