Status Updates From The Book of Skulls

"And you want us to believe that the Book of Skulls shows the way, huh?"

"It's a possibility. It gives us a finite chance to enter the infinite. Isn't that good enough? Isn't that worth trying? Where did sneering get us? Where did doubt get us? Where did skepticism get us? Can't we try? Can't we look?" Eli had found his faith again. He was shouting, sweating, standing up stark naked and waving his arms around."

"But her question opened a trapdoor beneath me and dropped me into that other, darker world, the fantasy world, the dreamworld, where solemn young men speculated on the possibility of being reprieved forever from death, where fledgling scholars noodled themselves into believing that they had come upon arcane manuscripts revealing the secrets of ancient mystic cults..."