"Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . The observers . . . Every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy."


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