“True and false, illusory and real, fan-tastic and everyday. Outside of us when we believe him to be in us, he is in us when we believe him outside of us. Although he leads an existence useless and parasitic, he is morally and resolutely ‘Mani-chean.’ He offers us a grimacing caricature of what is worst in us.”

Dostoevsky,

Resurrection from the Underground