Chibi acted as she always did. Her interest was in her own natural talents, and the animal and plant kingdoms. The human world was of no concern

Takashi Hiraide, The Guest Cat [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Hiraide The Guest Cat natural talents animal plant human world no concern

Consider also:

  1. “These are still Ways back to God—the three mārgas—the way of knowledge, the way of love, and the way of action”
  2. “This used to be a church-controlled, Calvinistic, sexually repressed, macho, violent, dark-minded, witch-burning country, and our fractured laughter is screaming who-fucking-cares promises of survival into the yawning maw of the void.”
  3. “Demands for sacrifice lack appeal for those who have already sacrificed, and been sacrificed, too much and for too long. The future promised by the left looked to be – at worst, even worse – and at best, not noticeably better than the status quo. Why rush to the barricades or, for that matter, why even bother to vote?”
  4. “We are not interested in Space. Space holds no appeal to us whatsoever. Humanity has spent hundreds of years trying to find faster ways to get through Space precisely because we hate it so much. Space has no food, no booze, no women, none of the things that make life tolerable. The only reason I put up with Space at all is because I need somewhere to put my stuff.”
  5. “Below lay the tomb world, the immutable cause-and-effect world of the demonic. At median extended the layer of the human, but at any instant a man could plunge—descend as if sinking—into the hell-layer beneath. Or: he could ascend to the ethereal world above, which constituted the third of the trinary layers. Always, in his middle level of the human, a man risked the sinking. And yet the possibility of ascent lay before him”