At Fear's Altar Quotes

“THINGS ARE WHAT THEY ARE, BUT NOTHING IS REAL UNTIL KING HIM UTTERS ITS NAME. WE KNOW A CHAIR IS A CHAIR BECAUSE EVERYTIME WE SEE ONE, KING HIM SAYS THE WORD “CHAIR” IN OUR EAR. OUR PHYSICS ARE HIS FAIRY-TALES. [SEE MATHEMATICS OF MAKE-BELIEVE.] WHAT MOST CALL THOUGHTS ARE REALLY JUST KING HIM TALKING. KING HIM IS ALWAYS TALKING. HIS NEVERENDING LECTURE IS WHAT PEOPLE CALL “KNOWLEDGE.”
― Richard Gavin, At Fear's Altar

“I was tired of creeping out of my one-bedroom apartment solely to go to the office or to shop for provisions, sick of basing my opinions on television news feeds or lonesome perusals of the Internet. I was simply tired of being alone.”
― Richard Gavin, At Fear's Altar

“Capricorn taught me that this realm is called Autumnal by its faithful. Autumnal is not a place, but an eternal moment. It is a state of being where one’s innermost nature weds perfectly with some neglected corner of the natural world. Autumnal is smoke and damp air. It is illumed by a slaughtered sun whose rays are filtered through a perennial fog. This is the Greylight; the guttering fallow of the underworld glyphed in the natural world of matter and form.”
― Richard Gavin, At Fear's Altar