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“People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
“Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart...
...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.”
― From Hell
...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.”
― From Hell
“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere.
And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
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And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.”
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“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him.”
― Black Spring
― Black Spring
“To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th century inception seems to indicate a retreat from the admittedly overwhelming complexities of modern existence. It looks to me very much like a significant section of the public, having given up on attempting to understand the reality they are actually living in, have instead reasoned that they might at least be able to comprehend the sprawling, meaningless, but at-least-still-finite 'universes' presented by DC or Marvel Comics. I would also observe that it is, potentially, culturally catastrophic to have the ephemera of a previous century squatting possessively on the cultural stage and refusing to allow this surely unprecedented era to develop a culture of its own, relevant and sufficient to its times.”
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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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