Fables by Macbeth
Hadn’t there been a time when he’d thought his art [comedy] could cleanse the world of malice? Perhaps an army of holy fools could succeed with laughter where bombs had failed. A sweet, ridiculous vision. Comedians on the battlefields, baring their asses to the guns, and beating the generals over the head with rubber chickens; grinning cannon fodder, confounding the politicians with puns and signing the peace treaties in polka-dotted ink.
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| — | From The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker |
From The Great and Secret Show
Hotchkiss: There's a whole world...about which we know next to nothing. And it's changing all the time. Sure, there's rivers, but there's a good deal else besides. Whole species that never see the sun.
Grillo: Doesn't sound like much fun.
Hotchkiss: They accommodate, as we all do. They live with their limitations. We're all of us living on a fault line, after all, which could open up at any moment. We accommodate that.
