Wednesday 28 August 2024

  

 there's another force as well, one every bit as real as the God ..., 

and that it works consciously to bring all our decent impulses to ruin. ..., 

but a kind of demon of discord, a prankish and stupid thing

 that laughs with glee when an old man sets himself on fire trying to light his pipe

 or when a much-loved baby puts its first Christmas toy in its mouth and chokes to death on it.