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I know that sometimes a lie is used in kindness. I don’t believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

I should not have to wait and grovel and plead and crush and cut away at myself until too I’m small enough to fit at the margins, in the footnotes! You make all the world a game, where you decide the victor and you decide the rules, then pat yourself on the back for winning every single time!

Whenever a woman without children loved an animal or a cause or anything else…it was thought to be a substitute for what she did not have. No matter that all three of us had looked upon the Creature with pride and joy; I alone was not its creator, or its artist, or its inventor, but merely a mother, most qualified to care for it not due to any intelligence…but due to the perversion of some natural urge.

At the heart of every established religion is one sacred mystery that supports belief and induces fidelity, even to the point of martyrdom. Did he want to know what may behind deaths door? Yes. But what he wanted more…was to violate that mystery. To drag it into the light and hold it up, screaming ‘Here it is! What all your crusades and murder in the name of God is for! Here it is, and how do you like it?’

Using lightning as a road to the secret electricity, and the secret electricity as a thoroughfare to potestas magnum universum, I intend to bring (her) back to some form of life. I intend to learn the truth of what’s on the other side of the door that leads to the Kingdom of Death. I’ll learn it from the lips of someone who’s been there.

I want to know what the universe has in store for all of us once this life is over, and I intend to find out.