← And there'll be the guards there with their idiotic expressions and their fat necks jammed into their stiff collars and their big ugly hands, looking at us like cows. And we'll feel we could scream, we could try to make them understand, but they'd just carry on like savages and do whatever they were told to do without knowing it it was good or bad... 🔊✎
← You've heard the priests of Thebes doing the burial ceremony? You've seen those poor, tired church employees cutting short their gestures, gabbling the words, trying to get it over quickly enough so that they can fit in another stiff before they break for lunch? 🔊✎
← But now, it's over. And they are fine all the same. All the people who were going to die are dead. Those who believed one thing, and those who believed the opposite, and even the ones who didn't believe anything and just found themselves caught up in the story without any idea of what was happening. All equally dead, all of them, stiff and useless and starting to rot. 🔊✎