Enter...the devil

"The devil is a headache; the devil is a voice inside a wall; the devil is a fin breaking through the dark waves. The devil is the brief, twittering nothing that was a thrush's life. The devil sucks all the beauty from the world, all the hope and what remains when the devil has finished is a realm of the living dead - joyless, suffocating."
- Virginia Woolf in The Hours (by Michael Cunningham)