Jack

“The clumsy two-storey mansion was one of those elaborate houses that sprang up all over Australia like exotic fungi following the finding of gold.”
― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“Because everybody knows how they keep going on: they take one, we take one, then they take two, and we take three...they shoot up an airport so we blow up a school. And blood runs in the gutters. Because that's what it's all about, isn't it? Blood in the gutters. Blood...”
― Richard Bachman, Thinner

“Greek thought, as Russell states, is full of fate. It can, of course, be argued that these sentiments are the expressions of an archaic culture or world view which died two thousand years ago, prolonged through the medieval epoch because of ignorance of the natural universe, and that we know better now. In one sense this is true, but one of the more important and disturbing insights of depth psychology is the revelation that the mythic and undifferentiated consciousness of our ancestors, which animated the natural world with images of gods and daimones, does not belong to chronological history alone. It also belongs to the psyche of modern man, and represents a stratum which, although layered over by increasing consciousness and the hyper-rationality of the last two centuries, is as potent as it was two millennia or even ten millennia ago.”
― Liz Greene, The Astrology of Fate

“Because everybody knows how they keep going on: they take one, we take one, then they take two, and we take three...the shoot up an airport so we blow up a school. And blood runs in the gutters. Because that's what it's all about, isn't it? Blood in the gutters. Blood...”
― Richard Bachman, Thinner