Little Gods
“Because they begin simple and beautiful and, over time, become complex and beautiful.
Like my scar. But we couldn't call our daughter Scar, and even if we could have, my dead ex-wife would have refused.
5 The scar does not guide me. I lash myself with coathangers and burn myself with lye, but more than ever before the window into revelation seems hopelessly opaque. I feel I have reached an impasse, that I have done all I can—now all my work is the equivalent of useless cross-hatching, obsessive... shading, adding irrelevant details.
If my scar will not guide me, I must guide myself.
I will go to the monster's lair.
6 The front door is unlocked, and I go inside. There is some light from the windows, but it is dimmed by curtains. This is a squalid little house. My dead ex-wife was an excellent housekeeper, but in her absence the monster's house has reverted to type. I almost expect to see a heap of gnawed bones in the corner, a pallet made of rotting animal skins. But there are only old newspapers, empty aluminum cans.MoreLess
Like my scar. But we couldn't call our daughter Scar, and even if we could have, my dead ex-wife would have refused.
5 The scar does not guide me. I lash myself with coathangers and burn myself with lye, but more than ever before the window into revelation seems hopelessly opaque. I feel I have reached an impasse, that I have done all I can—now all my work is the equivalent of useless cross-hatching, obsessive... shading, adding irrelevant details.
If my scar will not guide me, I must guide myself.
I will go to the monster's lair.
6 The front door is unlocked, and I go inside. There is some light from the windows, but it is dimmed by curtains. This is a squalid little house. My dead ex-wife was an excellent housekeeper, but in her absence the monster's house has reverted to type. I almost expect to see a heap of gnawed bones in the corner, a pallet made of rotting animal skins. But there are only old newspapers, empty aluminum cans.MoreLess
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