"We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves."
Gene Wolfe

January 1, 1970

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Volume 3, Ch. 10

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