The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.
If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
I don't know how one should live - but I know that one should live.
Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.
Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.