there also exists the rare "Soul Burner" and they are feared pariahs one such being becomes a mountain that issues a clarion call to our antihero's black hole of a heart. or is it? "Sin Eater" is a profession, for example, one that is particularly handy in a world full of spirits mooning about.
The world Nophtha inhabits is not our own. such a trifling comment, but still: Nophtha is me and I am Nophtha! rather amusing to suddenly have empathy for a character with no empathy in him. but suddenly I found my way in via one phrase: I've never been all that bored because I am either not paying attention or paying complete attention.ah! I thought. the prose impresses, but does not ingratiate. The text was at first difficult to enter. the novel was written by Cisco, the blood of Ligotti and Dostoyevsky pulsing in his veins: pedantic, misanthropic, malevolent, darkly witty the imagery obscure, the narrative ambiguous, the theme cutting sharp, stabbing the reader again and again with its points.
The story is recounted by Nophtha, a lonely fellow much abused by the world seeking to in turn abuse that world, an apostate, a man with strange powers: he is an eater of spirits. the traitor would see this race of fools fall, their cities flooded and their works in flames, their minds set free unto oblivion.
And who does this so-called "traitor" yearn to betray? he is Judas to that quicksand of lumpish bodies, those cities of prison gray and sewer brown, this world of chittering mindless insects: he seeks to betray humanity itself.
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