Connections IV

There are the Catacombs. They are lined with books and bones, an ossuary for those who become lost in their own lives. The Catacombs are passageways.
CONNECTION: WHERE THE SPIDERS SPIN THE PAGES.

There are the Whispering Galleries. Within them, all secrets are revealed if only you listen. The Whispering Galleries are passageways.
CONNECTION: WITH SHARP TEETH AND RED RAGES.

There are the Rabbit Holes. They connect to two places that should never be connected. The Rabbit Holes are passageways.
CONNECTION: WHERE ALL ARE TRAPPED IN CAGES.

Comfortably Numbers

There are four letters. There are five suns. There are nine circles and ten plagues. There are three bodies. There are five mansions. There are seven heavens and seven hells. There are ten bridges and ten passageways.

Aren't there?

Connections III

There is a Station. A place to rest, to stop, the Station is stark and colorless. The Station is a bridge.
CONNECTION: WHERE THERE'S NO BLACK AND WHITE, ONLY GRAY.

There is a Staircase. The Staircase spirals, curves around existence itself. The Staircase is a bridge.
CONNECTION: STRANGE SPIRALS WILL SHOW YOU THE WAY.

There is a Wall. The unbroken Wall is the only thing keeping you safe. The Wall is a bridge.
CONNECTION: THAT IT STAYS UNBROKEN, LET US ALL PRAY.

An Excerpt

Ronson, Jon, The Psycopath Test: a journey through the madness industry (Riverhead Books, 2011)
ISBN 978-1-59448-801-6

Pages 115 - 117:

   "When I was doing my Ph.D.," he said, "I devised this personality test, and I advertised for volunteers amongst the student population. I put notices on the notice board, and a girl turned up. Young girl. She was a second-year student. About nineteen. She said, 'This is a personality test, isn't it?' I said, 'Yes.' She said, 'I've got a bad personality. I like to hurt people.' I thought she was winding me up. I said, 'Okay, fine.' So we went through the tests. When she was looking at photographs of the mutilated bodies, the sensors showed that she was getting a kick off of them. Her sexual reward center--it's a sexual thing--was fired up by blood and death. It's subconscious. It happens in milliseconds. She found those things pleasant." 

[...]

  "Where is this woman now?" I asked Adam. "Maybe I could meet her for my book? In a busy cafe or something."
  "I've no means of tracking her down," Adam said. "Participants in my studies are recorded only by numbers, not by name." He fell silent for a second. "So she's gone," he said.

72 69 76 76 79 13 10 73 78 65 78 78 65 13 10 69 82 69 83 72 75 73 71 65 76

Connections II

There is a Crossroad. Many roads branch out from it, leading to many trials. The Crossroad is a bridge.
CONNECTION: ALL THAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND.

There is a Shore. The Shore is desolate and cold, with storms building up on its horizon. The Shore is a bridge.
CONNECTION: THE BROKEN, BIRDS, AND BLIND.

There is a Way. The Way can only be walked by gods and monsters. The Way is a bridge.
CONNECTION: NONE, YOU ARE CONFINED.

The Demon

Change, change, O form of man!
Release the might from fleshy mire!

Boil the blood in heart of fire!
Gone, gone, the form of man--
Behold the Demon Etrigan!

One day, the Lords of Hell gave Etrigan the Demon a task. Two sections of Hell had been thrown into chaos -- normally, this wouldn't give them a second thought, but these sections were the sinners to be burned in ffire and the sinners to be frozen in ice. By mixing together, the sinners had created an environment where neither side was experiencing much paiin.

The Lords of Hell had constructed a room around all the sinners are a dividing wall in the room so that one side could hold the frozen sinners and the other side the burning sinners. They told Etrigan that he was to divide the sinnners himself.

"Oh, to you high rulers of Hell,
I am but a humble demon Etrigan.
I shall put down those who rebel
For I have a straight and simple plan."

Etrigan set to work. He stoodd in the doorway of the dividing wall in the room and whenever a burning sinner wanted to go into the left-side he let thhem and whenever a frozen sinner wanted to go to the riight side he let themm.

The Lords of Hell looked upon Etrigan and saw thiis and wondered how such a plan could work. But soon, the rooms were divided into burning sinners and frozenn sinners. Etrigan's plan had worked perfectly.

Thhe Lords of Hell wanted to reward Etrigan, soo they asked him what he wanted.

"Oh, to you lords of all hellfire,
I, Etrigan, am but a humble demon,

Though I do have pplans and aspire
To be a humble free man."

So the Lords of Hell turned towards each other and decided that yes, they could give Etrigan his wish. He could be a free man. He could not, on the other hand, be a free demon.

Begone, begone, O Etrigan!
Chain the demon in flesh and bone!
Chain it's soul in hardened stone!
Come, come, out of the mud--
Behold the human Jason Blood!

So, it just goes to show you: never trust the Lords of Hell when they give you a reeward.

Connections

There is a Path. Trees line the Path, trees with black leaves. The Path is a bridge.
Connection: THE TREE THAT IS BLEEDING.

There is a City. The City is forever moving, forever twisting, forever changing. The City is a bridge.
Connection: THE DOORS THAT ARE FEEDING.

There is an Ocean. There are no monsters in the Ocean. Not yet. The Ocean is a bridge.
Connection: THE WEEDS THAT ARE BREEDING.