“You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”
Source: East of Eden
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“People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.”
Geralt
Source: The Last Wish (1993)
Context: “People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.”
Life As It Is, page ii, by Nelson Rodrigues, English translation, Alex Ladd, Host Publications, ISBN 9780924047602 pages
“She was a monster, but she was my monster.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Section 9.82 (p. 302)
Flight from Nevèrÿon (1985)
“So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool.”
interview with 3am
Context: The thing about good pulp is that you trust the reader and you know that the mind is a machine to process metaphors so of course all those connections will be there. But you've also granted the fantastic its own dynamic and allowed that awe. There's no contradiction. So I want to have monsters as a metaphor but I also want monsters because monsters are cool. There's no contradiction.
