Benjamin

“The Shaper talked of how God had vanquished their enemies and filled up their houses with precious treasure, how they were the richest, most powerful people on earth, how here and here alone in all the world men were free and heroes were brave and virgins were virgins.”
― John Gardner, Grendel

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

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

“According to studies led by Dr. Allan C. Wilson of the University of California, there is genetic evidence that the entire human species arose from a single female in North Africa between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago. In other words, it is conceivable that we all started from the womb of a single woman.
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Or would we find an even greater mystery, that the whole pantheon of our reality was somehow contained in the wobbling mind of that creature, who fell down to thank her raw new gods after a panther leaped at her throat, and by a miracle missed devouring us all.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story