The Mortals are free, Lucifer. What they've done they've done from within themselves. - Raphael
Glen DuncanHell [...] is the absence of God and the presence of Time.
Glen DuncanTag: hell
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Glen DuncanThe first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
Glen DuncanTag: horror adaptation
Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.
Glen DuncanAll motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of time lounging around and staring out of the window and finding they can't be arsed.
Glen DuncanThere’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.
Glen DuncanLiterature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
Glen DuncanTag: books humanity literature judgement
She understood the genre constraints, the decencies we 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 brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured pride. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. By rights, Talulla knew, she should have been orphaned or raped or paedophilically abused or terminally ill or suicidally depressed or furious at God for her mother’s death or at any rate in some way deranged if she was to be excused for not having killed herself, once it became apparent that she’d have to murder and devour people in order to stay alive. The mere desire to stay alive, in whatever form you’re lumbered with—werewolf, vampire, Father of Lies—really couldn’t be considered a morally sufficient rationale. And yet here she was, staying alive. You love life because life’s all there is.
Glen DuncanTag: genre-constraints
Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly
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