farahxreads’s Reviews > Dead Souls > Status Update

“Swift are the transformations in man; before you can blink a terrible, despotic worm has grown up within him, and has sucked up all his vital juices.”

“…for fear is more catching than the plague and spreads like wildfire.”

"...so long as no high rank is present, Prometheus remains Prometheus, but should there appear someone ever so slightly senior to him, Prometheus undergoes a metamorphosis such as Ovid himself could never imagine: he becomes a fly, less than a fly, he is reduced to a grain of dust!"