The life of a space mariner was one filled with superstition and ritual: they clung with nigh religious fervour to anything that might belay such bad luck.

Andy Hoare, Rogue Trader: The Omnibus [Amazon, Publisher, Local Library]

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Consider also:

  1. “Any return to The Way of Men is probably going to happen in hollow states through extra-legal means.”
  2. “Pleading insanity, Rudy the Ringleader is committed and spends the rest of his life pretending to be a vegetable. Rudy likes being a vegetable. It’s much easier than being a human.”
  3. “ritual ordeals which test the faith of someone being initiated into an ascetic spiritual discipline.”
  4. “green of the honeyed muse, green of the rough caress of ritual, green undaunted by reason or delirium, green of jealous joy, green of the secret holy violence of the thyrsos, green of the sacred iridescence of the dance”
  5. “A rubber-bodied toddler with a painted face and very red hair lay dead beside your knee and for some reason it was this that destroyed you, it was this that kindled within you something you had no hope of defending against. You howled in a purity of fright.”