Benjamin

“I knew what I knew, the mindless, mechanical bruteness of things, and when the harper’s lure drew my mind away to hopeful dreams, the dark of what was and always was reached out and snatched my feet.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“Our understanding has grown to a point where we are now very confused.”
― Christopher Knight, Who Built the Moon?

“Mournfully observing the way it is, bitterly remembering the way it was, and idiotically casting tomorrow's nets.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

“The initial intellect that created everything became a man and died, nailed to a wooden post some two thousand years ago, before briefly returning to human life and then transferring back to his ethereal state somewhere outside of the physical world. This anthropoid interlude for this creator deity (many billions of years after the start of the Universe) is believed to compensate for the bad behavior of those people who accept this story as real, thereby ensuring a pleasant continuation of consciousness after their physical body has ceased to be alive.”
― Christopher Knight, Who Built the Moon?