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By now, he should not be the least surprised by the capacity of evil people to deceive their credulous friends and neighbors—or by the unconscious preference of so many people to be deceived.
Excellent insight. Shows Nameless’ cynical outlook based on his experience.
Charles Parker.
I love the names Koontz uses.
First are those for whom the words right and wrong have no meaning other than for such as traffic directions: You turn right at the second stoplight; if you turn left, you’ve gone wrong. They are nihilists, though not all of them know it and though many of them would bristle at the label. All such people are difficult to trust: some are dangerous, and some are lethal sociopaths.
Second are those who recognize right and wrong, a natural tao, and who try to live by what is right, as much as they can. These people are aware that real and implacable evil exists in the world; however, as a psychological defense mechanism, many of them grossly underestimate the prevalence of it.
Third are those who, busy with their lives, haven’t given much thought to right and wrong. When encountering profound evil, they are not sure what to think about it, and they seek to understand it as a complex phenomenon when in fact it’s simple. By imagining evil as infinitely nuanced, they drain all the bl...
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Members of the second group, who underestimate the prevalence of evil, are those most often targeted by it. They can pretty much be trusted not to do profound evil themselves, but
redolent of fresh-brewed coffee,
He has used this exact phrase in the last story, maybe two.
Vigilant Eagle Security Company’s
Good old Vigilant Eagle. Always.
Dufraine lives alone, but the condition of the kitchen suggests this is a fraternity house with an incompetent housekeeper. Things get worse from there. The dining room contains only a foosball game. The living room features a giant TV, two motorized recliners, a sofa, six pinball machines, and a litter of empty beer cans. If the home office is identifiable by its desk and computer, it is nonetheless also a temple to Victoria’s Secret, the walls papered with posters of the retailer’s most spectacularly endowed models in lingerie that could be folded and tucked into a thimble.
This description gives us a good look at the “man” Dufraine is.
Fannie Ann Tatas,
Hahaha! Another of those clever names. Fannie Ann Tatas - a.k.a T& A, TnA, bootie & boobs
she doesn’t fear anyone,
A common phrase, self description, used by Koontz from villains in these stories.
She has never before been so full of adjectives.
I noticed this. 😂🗣
Regret is a kind of sorrow, but he feels no remorse, which is a kind of gnawing guilt. Sorrow, but no guilt.
Interesting
where the animals that wake and live in the absence of the sun are going about their business more peacefully than does humanity. There is violence even among their kind, pain and death, but they do not lie to one another. They know nothing of the numerous varieties of deception to which the human race is heir, nor are they infected with the envy that drives men and women to destroy themselves and others—and frequently even empires.
