Kindle Notes & Highlights
He felt expected - because he thirsted for all that lived there and was growing and fertile. Therefore it was right for him to come and partake of these divine gifts.
Quiet. And peace. And all that was green. He had an uncontrollable desire to see things grow and unfold themselves according to their plans, to perfect themselves. To attain that which was perfection for each separate living thing.
Bestiality itself stuck its snout into human life’: dark, filthy and consuming. A second: - The devil is visiting our house. Prepare yourself, you who shall be led away - they did not know what thoughts and feelings were racing through them. But those brutal, bloody snouts were there right in front of them.
At that instant the fire was lit. Sorrow was converted into rage, into killing lightning that did not strike down from the heavens, but that ran along the ground, consuming all before it, blinding all reason. He was lost, he who fled before them.
The room was far, far away somewhere, sailing into the night. They stood there and were a part of its journey for a little while.
Each of them wished for a white flame into which he could throw all his evil deeds, but knew that he would have to carry them with him. The night moved slowly through the barn and bent them further down. Such am I; the pit is in my brow, but I have tried to rid myself of it.
Hay and grain poured through its doors, and outside the sun poured down day after day and gave life and strength - and perhaps also happiness, though that still seemed somehow beyond belief. They felt that it said: Rise up from your fall. Rolf heard it too. Rise up from your fall, Rolf. This is not the end.
