Status Updates From Watchmen

"But the world is so full of people, so crowded with these miracles that they become commonplace and we forget... I forget. We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away."

"What about all those occasions when men have found it necessary to go masked in order to preserve justice above the letter of the law? (...) despite what some might view as their later excesses, the Klan originally came into being because decent people had perfectly reasonable fears for the safety of their persons and belongings when force into proximity with people from a culture far less morally advanced."

I wonder what it means to don the face of the abyss. To choose to identify as someone who can only see the darkness of people.

Is it acceptance? Or is it surrender?

I can't believe Ozymandias would copy Thors. Though I guess he is the smartest man in the world, so he would know about Thors' story.

"A scientific understanding of the beautifully synchronized and articulated motion of an owl's individual feathers during flight does not impede a poetic appreciation of the same phenomenon. Rather, the two enhance each other, a more lyrical eye lending the cold data a romance from which it has long been divorced."

All hail Dr. Manhattan, for He IS God. Nothing more. Nothing less.