[Demonworld #2] The Pig Devils by Kyle B. Stiff

Author:Kyle B. Stiff [Stiff, Kyle B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Demons, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Monsters, Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781311448804
Amazon: B0081VXA70
Published: 2012-05-08T23:00:00+00:00

“But let us not forget the little cogs,” said Professor Matri. “In our rush to give the hero our allegiance, after-the-fact, let us not forget the little cogs of the machine, who helped to feed the evil. It’s easy to point fingers. It’s so easy. But isn’t it really the fault of the villain if he fools those taught to follow? They are not at fault. They are not to blame.”

Professor Korliss stopped suddenly, then said, “Or are they? What do you think, Mister Lamsang?”

* * *

“... so what has before been called a timestream is in actuality a now-ness is-ness flux-ness, a morphological nexus of sameness, an agreed-upon madness labeled sanity as such, a slice of possible experiences far removed from bestial simplicity evidenced by the fact that the same science-thought which gives us the creation of the watch cannot in any satisfactory sense prove the existence of the thing it measures, yet perhaps not without,” Aegis Vachs snapped shut the book, then said, “The Theory of Tomorrow. Wonderful stuff, eh, old friend?”

Shem Udo sat with Vachs in his study, elbows on knees, running his hands through his hair, again and again.

“Yes?” said Vachs, annoyed, already preparing his counter-banter.

“Should’ve seen the way Sevrik treated me today,” said Udo. “Just intolerable. And that monster of his, shadowing him. A man can’t even think with that thing around.”

“Well let’s see if this philosopher has anything to say about your problem,” said Aegis. He opened the book and read, “... like an intangible promise-world, no different from quaint post-biological elysiums, so also is that potential non-nowness non-experience thought of, not the least insofar as much of its presence rests in our verbiage, on agreed-legitimate lexicons of shared blindness, from whence nothing can ever be drawn, but unto which all things go, another assumption of which is that this belief-entity is supposed to place one further up in the hierarchy of organisms, and yet, if not from utter belief in this particular non-experience, from whence can we draw the prime motivation for insanity, unhappiness, and the like, which besets our particular biological substratum,” and Vachs snapped the book shut again. “With a few words, friend, the man has erased our conception of the past, present - and best of all - the future. Now that’s the sort of man we should be working with, Shem old friend!”

Whether or not Vachs was actually trying to distract him from his problems, or was just lording over him the fact that he did not understand the book, mattered little to Udo. His thoughts were a jumbled mess of annoyances either way.

“Treats me as replaceable,” said Udo. “As if Haven would fall apart without him.”

“All parts are replaceable. Don’t forget, friend, we’re counting on that. Also…” Vachs glanced at his wristwatch dramatically. “Any minute now, many, many problems will be gift-wrapped and ready for delivery unto the void.”

“Hm.”

There was a sharp knock at the door. Aegis made a sound. The door opened and Seloid Cramer entered. Vachs

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