Experience -

Experience -
Blake and Pullman’s mystical carriage


There is a class of men that delight in
anarchic destruction. Using the law
malevolently to subvert justice;
excising goodness and mercy, light and

sunlit loving kindnesses. Darkly glooms
our world to processions of evil guise;
ulcerating ambitious misdeeds with
legacies of vice interpreted as
selfless self-sacrifice. Devil’s servant

anticipates aspiring greedy men;
men whose will to power tramples over all
principles. Morals mutate from honour,
until the souls of the ignorant join
together with the consciously evil:
asserting wicked iniquity as
the price a pragmatist must always pay:
eventual success at the end of the
day, demands no less than this fiendish way.


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