"You have to decide something is a monster before it becomes one." Scarlett Thomas, Our Tragic Universe, pg 132.

Nice book for aspiring intellectual writers. Reassuring that there are others out there.

This quote and the page or so going on about it. I imagine a good person trying to help someone and this someone making a bad judgement and suddenly the good person finds themselves turning into an ogre. Suddenly they find their face becoming mishapen, their jaw elongates, etc, all while a desperate bewildered look enters their eyes. Then the villagers attack, throwing stones, etc while the good person shields themselves and retreats and retreats and finally too many stones hit home and the good person lashes out in return and starts attacking the villagers in return like the evil bloodthirsty troll it clearly always was.

I imagine an angel which comes from the sky to help the people of a village. It studies them from afar to see how it can help them. It devotes itself to helping. It sees some particular problem? and works to fix it at extreme cost to itself. Meanwhile the villagers have become aware of it's existence and think it a demon. Clearly it is different, therefore of course it's a demon. And after a good bit of detailing how the angel is trying to save them, they kill it, they defile it's body, etc.

A beautiful world stood before them and they shit upon it.

A beautiful world stands before you and so it goes.