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your hypothesis of the Devil Aspect is right, then the disease is already present—omnipresent in all of us—waiting for some trigger to bring it forth. We are all infected with the potential for madness and evil, but only fragile psychologies fall victim to the full-blown disease.
Many cells in Pankrác and Ruzyně prisons were filled with dark-complexioned shadows in the stead of a paler truth left free.
Unless, of course, the layer-of-wastes has a Charlie Chaplin mustache and the mark of the Beast is a swastika.”
it’s the nature of the Devil to disguise his presence. The truth is that the Devil comes into all of our lives, at least once, at one time or another. Everyone encounters him, but most don’t know he’s there. They blame the evil in others, or in themselves, for anything bad that happens to them. The truth is nobody really believes in him anymore, which is his most powerful weapon.
“The greatest danger in seeking out the Devil, my dear Doctor, is that you might find him.”
So this, Viktor thought to himself, is where the Devil hides. On the edge of death.
