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"Red: I don’t know how to describe how I see the world. I don’t have anything to compare it with. I could say that I see it how it is, but I know too much for that. Like—what’s it called, the thing with the shadows on the wall of the cave? Plato?
Malhar: You are a disturbing combination of erudition and instability.
Red: Oh yes. I disturb even myself." — Jun 17, 2026 05:55AM
"Red: I don’t know how to describe how I see the world. I don’t have anything to compare it with. I could say that I see it how it is, but I know too much for that. Like—what’s it called, the thing with the shadows on the wall of the cave? Plato?
Malhar: You are a disturbing combination of erudition and instability.
Red: Oh yes. I disturb even myself." — Jun 17, 2026 05:55AM
“Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
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“But in the end it's only a passing thing, this shadow; even darkness must pass.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives while from the dimlit halls of other places forms that never were and never could be writhe for the impatience of the few who never saw what could have been. In the black water with the sun shining at midnight, those fruit shall come ripe and in the darkness of that which is golden shall split open to reveal the revelation of the fatal softness in the earth. The shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear, but whether it decays under the earth or above on green fields, or out to sea or in the very air, all shall come to revelation, and to revel, in the knowledge of the strangling fruit—and the hand of the sinner shall rejoice, for there is no sin in shadow or in light that the seeds of the dead cannot forgive. And there shall be in the planting in the shadows a grace and a mercy from which shall blossom dark flowers, and their teeth shall devour and sustain and herald the passing of an age. That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated it shall walk the world in the bliss of not-knowing. And then there shall be a fire that knows the naming of you, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you that remains.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
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