Sea Witch by Never Angeline Nørth P. 239
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SEA-WITCH TRANS MEMOIR TATTOO OF A BARE TREE SURROUNDED BY RED ORBS
I'm afraid that through the course of this book I might have given the impression that all monsters love one another. It is honestly something I hate & am not proud of & haven't wanted to talk about but I'm afraid at this point I've given you all the wrong impression. Because this could not be further from the truth. Monsters are horrible to each other. We tear each other apart with our teeth & we tell lies so other monsters will join in. We throw each other out in the cold & we play long, manipulative head games over the course of years to ruin each other's lives. We act just like the worst of the 78 Men on a much smaller scale. We are horrible, vile creatures. That is what they have made us.
Let me explain. When pain echoes through your head all day, when you feel it as part of who you are, it is impossible to not get angry. It is impossible not to want to cause pain to others. The 78 Men who Cause pain are the rightful recipients of this anger, but they have strategically placed themselves completely out of reach of all monsters. What this means is the following:
Monsters want to hurt themselves. When you feel pain, you surround yourself with those who care. When you want to hurt someone & are surrounded only by those who care, who you do not want to hurt, you end up hurting yourself.
Monsters usually end up hurting those who care anyway. This almost always means other monsters.
& so monsters spend a lot of their energy hurting other monsters. But we also spend a lot of energy caring for each other. All of the greatest loves this world has ever known were between monsters. All the most gentle acts of care. We are extreme beings & we act extremely.
I am worried that upon writing this it will become more true. Some of the things I have been writing have been affecting my life. My whoe life was torn apart & so I wrote about everything torn apart & it got more torn apart. I am just trying to document but I am afraid this document has too much magic.
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