P. Kirby’s Reviews > Nod > Status Update

He had the tangled hair and wide, unblinking eyes of a true believer--all dilated, receptive pupil. True Believers always look, to me, like dogs with their heads out the car window: in the grip of something they can't comprehend but surrendering to the joy of it without thought or reservation. A pretty picture until you reach over and surprise it with a pat on the back.

...she'd already seen the full menu of 'things no child should ever see'--but which, we adults conveniently forget, they actually see all the time. Children are the eternal, silent witnesses to every human sin, and the more we tatter their purity, the more we extol the clean white blouses of 'innocence.'

The first few pages were DNF-worthy obtuse shite, but after that the narrative backtracks, explains things, and starts making sense.