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“In a century or two this planet will have been destroyed by external cosmic forces or by the senseless activity of the human race. Human life is a freak phenomenon, soon to be blotted out. That is a consoling thought. Meanwhile we are surrounded by strange invisible entities, possibly your angels."
"I hope so."
"Ah, you think they are good, theycannotbe good, there is no good, the tendency to evil is overwhelming. One has only to think of the horrors of sex, its violence, its cruelty, its filthy vulgarity, its descent into bestial degradation. You had better go and dream in your monastery. "
"Would you come and visit me there?"
"Of course not. I do not visit. Only, unfortunately, am sometimes visited."
"You don't want to discuss — you know — what happened? My priest said —"
"No."
"I care about how you are, I love you."
"You still fail to realise how this sort of talk sickens me. Now please go. This will do for a welcome home scene. Tell them not to come. I desire to be left alone.”
―
The Green Knight
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