Status Updates From Basilisk

a lot of words in this book that don't need to be there

Haven’t been this hooked on a book in a while. I forget where I am and almost forgot to go to work this morning. Love it so far!

“Horror is everywhere, but beyond understanding. Horror is knowing that there are things which can never be known. Horror is knowing that these things are denied to us forever.”
“All revelation is horror; all horror revelation.”

“Some people think that the very core of us, the last possible inch of our being, is integrity, or love, or faith, but it’s not. It’s hypocrisy. It sticks there in our ribcage, fused to the bone, stubborn as knotweed. It clings to life until the very end.”

“…because it is confusion and doubt that we are most vulnerable to infection by new ideas.”

“Horror is in the unfathomable. All horror-all good horror-has at its heart a heavy,obdurate dread of the unknown, of phenomena not just beyond experience but beyond possible experience. This is an existential terror-not of death, although death is obviously beyond possible experience-but of an awareness of the innate limits of comprehension and knowledge that come with life.”

“Some of us fall by chance, others because we want to. Some of us have died for what we believe in. Not all the things we believe in are good or worthy. We want to set information free.
Can information free us? Can it stop us from being fucked?