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“It was a cold-blooded lie that a god had lovingly made the world and set out the sun and moon as lights to land dwellers, that brothers had fought, that one of the races was saved, the other cursed. Yet he, the old Shaper, might make it true, by the sweetness of his harp, his cunning trickery. It came to me with a fierce jolt that I wanted it.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
“I'm like real squeamish about my own insides, which so far, knock wood, haven't given me too many problems. I guess it's better to know what goes on in there, but let's face it, all that stuff inside you turns against you sooner or later and thinking about it day in day out could drive somebody right over the edge.”
― Rent Boy
― Rent Boy
“Our understanding has grown to a point where we are now very confused.”
― Who Built the Moon?
― Who Built the Moon?
“I knew what I knew, the mindless, mechanical bruteness of things, and when the harper’s lure drew my mind away to hopeful dreams, the dark of what was and always was reached out and snatched my feet.”
― Grendel
― Grendel
“The initial intellect that created everything became a man and died, nailed to a wooden post some two thousand years ago, before briefly returning to human life and then transferring back to his ethereal state somewhere outside of the physical world. This anthropoid interlude for this creator deity (many billions of years after the start of the Universe) is believed to compensate for the bad behavior of those people who accept this story as real, thereby ensuring a pleasant continuation of consciousness after their physical body has ceased to be alive.”
― Who Built the Moon?
― Who Built the Moon?
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