"The way Jimmy spoke the name made you realize that this was the way it was meant to be spoken - in awe and fear and dumb, sub-literate rapture. You should be shitting yourself, Jimmy conveyed, at the idea of the Lord. You should be rolling around the floor in convulsions - it's only right. It is appropriate. You should be swallowing your tongue in a seizure. The Lord was awesome and terrible. He was pure power. This was the Dude who smashed the planet between his hands and pushed up the mountains, exploding them like zits between His fingertips. The was the Guy who turned the earth into one boiling ocean when he was finally fed up with all our crap. Who begat dinosaurs and the bubonic plague. This Guy. Him. And what's worse, what's most terrifying of all? Dude loves you. He loves you like a psycho girlfriend. Endlessly, obsessively, for no good reason. Dude will stalk you to the ends of the earth."
- The Antagonist, Lynn Coady
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