We Use Concepts Like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," But We

Like The Brief Doomed Flare Of Exploding Suns That Registers Dimly On Blind Men's Eyes, The Beginning Of The Horror Passed Almost Unnoticed; In The Shriek Of What Followed, In Fact, Was Forgotten And Perhaps Not Connected To The Horror At All.

When The Filter Is Weakened By A Powerful Drug, What We See Is Not Delusion But The Truth.

Earth Is A Homicide Victim. We Lose Our Children. There Are Wars. Disease. And God Comes Strolling By Like A Cosmic Billie Burke.

Perhaps Evil Is The Crucible Of Goodness... And Perhaps Even Satan - Satan, In Spite Of Himself - Somehow Serves To Work Out The Will Of God.

I Have Never Read Horror, Nor Do I Consider The Exorcist To Be Such, But Rather As A Suspenseful Supernatural Detective Story, Or Paranormal Police Procedural.