The rain's been racing earthwards as if with some religious or political fanaticism. The clouds have the look of dark internal bleeding. Surely you lot look up from Cosmo while this sort of thing's going on? Surely you take a Playstation break?
Glen DuncanShe understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brotherโs death when he accepts Lestatโs offer. Frankensteinโs creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Luciferโs rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abominationโbut only while unhinged by grief or wrath.
Glen DuncanI donโt know where the universe came from or what happens to creatures when they die. I donโt know if the whole thingโs an unravelling accident or an inscrutable design. I donโt know how one should liveโbut I know that one should live, if one can possibly bear it.
Glen DuncanWhen you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Glen Duncan