Gregisdead121 ’s Reviews > On Earth as it is Beneath > Status Update

:You know, sir,after years shut up in here, we forget what it’s like in the world
outside. Our world is here, on the inside, along with all kinds of people. I
don’t know exactly when I started feeling indifferent, I don’t remember…
It’s a slow thing, simmering away, until you realise there’s no turning back.
You lose all affection for your fellow man, you don’t even realise that they’re
the same as you. "

He
believed that God had made man in his own image, so God’s justice had to
be served by men, since every human being was the manifestation of God on
Earth.When a man killed another man, he killed the figure of God. In this
way,God’s image was murderer and murdered at the same time. He often fell
into long silences after killing. On the one hand, justice had been done; on
the other,a little bit of God was dead.

"He and the world both changed, but not in time
with each other. Valdênio got older, sick, not much sharper. The world
renewed itself. To be thrown outside the walls would be to serve another
sentence of survival and resistance that he couldn’t stand to repeat. "