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The most elaborate creation myth ever?

Complete carnage on most pages. Horrifying but I can’t seem to look away.

I had to actually go talk to someone about what was going on in this book. I’m giving it a bit more of a read but so far, it is dark and violent and odd.

“For the world is divided, experience teaches, into two parts: things to be murdered, and things that would hinder the murder of things”

“Staring at his grotesquely muscled shoulders- stooped, naked despite the cold, sleek as the belly of a shark and as rippled with power as the shoulders of a horse- I found my mind wandering. If I let myself, I could drop into a trance just looking at those shoulders. He was dangerous. And yet I was excited, suddenly alive.”