But we don't recognize it any more. How they'd laugh if we said someone was possessed. Words like temptation, sin, redemption. These are old words, but they're not dead. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
Nothing is ever anybody's fault.
Look at me, Officer Starling. She was just wicked. And like most attempts to avoid dealing with evil, it ended badly. John Robson is senior writer and deputy editorial pages editor.