You read any Greek myths, puppy? The one about the gorgon Medusa, particularly? I used to wonder what could be so terrible that you couldn't survive even looking at it.
Until I got a little older and I figured out the obvious answer.
Everything.
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On into the void he flies, unafraid. There is nothing in mere absence that can cow him. Or loneliness. Or the lack of maps and charts. For he is his own path. And he sees by his own light. We watch him from a great distance. From a vantage point no less subjective, no less absolute. And so it's hard to tell whether he imposes himself on the emptiness, or becomes it.
Mike CareyBe yourself, until you bleed.
Mike CareyCould it hurt to take a look? The answer was yes, of course. It's always yes. But I went anyway.
Mike CareyThe light of a hunter's moon bleached the unresisting pastels from the faces of the towers, so that they looked like titanic ribs of bone, and shadows accrued like crusted blood under the walkways.
Mike CareyStifling an obscene oath, I went back up the steps at a run, but I was locking the stable when the horse was already at the airport with a false passport.
Mike CareyAnd there's a darker side to Peckham, too, once you get in deep: a side I like a lot more, because I identify with the past and prefer even worm-eaten wood to wipe-clean plastic.
Mike CareyI could dodge the kick, but the stable door was already down - and I hadn't even realised it until I saw the splinters.
Mike CareyYou're a vampire, Richie. And I've got a gun the size of Nebraska. What's the worst that could happen?
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The world is a book. Some words stand out from the page.
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