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Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it–freedom, not reason–to pursue his plans for the future.Thomas Ligotti
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Such ordeals always strike one with their strangeness, their digression from the normal flow of events, and often provoke a universal protest: "Why me?" Be sure that this is not a question but an outcry. The person who screams it has been instilled with an astonishing suspicion that he, in fact, has been the perfect subject for a very specific "weird, " a tailor-made fate, and that a prior engagement, in all its weirdness, was fulfilled at the appointed time and place.Thomas Ligotti