Status Updates From The Vivisectors: A Novel

"She said that we were sick, indulgent. She said we played the most minor notes with the greatest of emphases. She said we loved to dwell on trivia. She said we liked to overanalyze, to look at things too closely. She said that we rotated events like glass prisms that revealed unseen colors when placed in new light. She said that on exposing these new colors we taught ourselves to hate them at once."