Chapter Forty-Five
Excerpt from Dr Ferrand’s diary
April 15, 1916
Unhealthy early in the morning. Sleepless night. Just finished reading story of 232. Totally unforeseen end. Recurring mirroring of archetypical motives? An entity foreseeing the future, taking delight in causing frightful bloodshed and suffering. Reminds me of Plato’s Phaedrus and the Greek’s fascination for fortune-telling as a ‘divine prompting’. Plato called this state of mind Mania.
Plato was also the one who divided the daemons into benign and malignant entities. In his vision, the drummer would be a kako-daemon, a spiritual being of a lower order who wants to harm humanity.
It would be nice to live in a time where a great philosopher could state such theories.
Note concerning the sister’s vacuity during the cruc
