Why does evil excite us so?
Everyone feels its silky lure.
Most of us ... maybe just that one time ... have blown a Commandment, lost our way, gone too far in the blurry hours after midnight.
And no wonder: Evil seduces with promises of passion and excess ... of transcendence over the merely physical and rational and present.
It guarantees perfection, as the Serpent did to Eve, which is why the figures of Dracula and de Sade and Hitler and Manson not only terrify and enrage but also beckon.
"Evil" may sound like an echo from a bygone, candlelit era.
Yet it can still send shivers down a modern spine ... shivers of fear, shivers of delight.
~~~William Hart~~~
Everyone feels its silky lure.
Most of us ... maybe just that one time ... have blown a Commandment, lost our way, gone too far in the blurry hours after midnight.
And no wonder: Evil seduces with promises of passion and excess ... of transcendence over the merely physical and rational and present.
It guarantees perfection, as the Serpent did to Eve, which is why the figures of Dracula and de Sade and Hitler and Manson not only terrify and enrage but also beckon.
"Evil" may sound like an echo from a bygone, candlelit era.
Yet it can still send shivers down a modern spine ... shivers of fear, shivers of delight.
~~~William Hart~~~
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We should admit that we love evil too much to give it up.
~~~Ghandi~~~
We should admit that we love evil too much to give it up.
~~~Ghandi~~~
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