![]() ![]() but suddenly I found my way in via one phrase: I've never been all that bored because I am either not paying attention or paying complete attention.ah! I thought. ![]() the prose impresses, but does not ingratiate. The text was at first difficult to enter. the novel was written by Cisco, the blood of Ligotti and Dostoyevsky pulsing in his veins: pedantic, misanthropic, malevolent, darkly witty the imagery obscure, the narrative ambiguous, the theme cutting sharp, stabbing the reader again and again with its points. The story is recounted by Nophtha, a lonely fellow much abused by the world seeking to in turn abuse that world, an apostate, a man with strange powers: he is an eater of spirits. the traitor would see this race of fools fall, their cities flooded and their works in flames, their minds set free unto oblivion. And who does this so-called "traitor" yearn to betray? he is Judas to that quicksand of lumpish bodies, those cities of prison gray and sewer brown, this world of chittering mindless insects: he seeks to betray humanity itself. ![]()
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