The Absence of Mercy

For LG and MNGB

There is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there.

—Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil