Something struggled into the light. Will felt the presence of it before he could see it. He felt an answer to the long ache.

Nathan Ballingrud, The Visible Filth [Amazon, Amazon (Collected), Bookshop (Collected), Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Ballingrud The Visible Filth something struggled into light felt presence before see answer long ache

Consider also:

  1. The Sandman: Overture
  2. “Capitalism is what is left when beliefs have collapsed at the level of ritual or symbolic elaboration, and all that is left is the consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.”
  3. “Sometimes, out of all this static and confusion, the Other assembles itself and takes form before our very eyes.”
  4. “Every library both embraces and rejects. Every library is by definition the result of choice, and necessarily limited in its scope. And every choice excludes another, the choice not made. The act of reading parallels endlessly the act of censorship.”
  5. “what crimes does one crime suggest!”