"I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly… — John Gardner
"I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly—as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back."
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"Poor Grendel's had an accident," I whisper. ''"So may you all."
Grendel, Grendel! You make the world by whispers, second by second. Are you blind to that? Whether you make it a grave or garden of roses is not the point. Feel the wall: is it not hard? He smashes me against it. Hard, yes! Observe the hardness, write it down in careful runes. Now, sing of walls! Sing!
Terrible, he whispers. Terrible. He laughs and lets out fire.
