The more they yearned for omnipotence
Blackwell was a sad and troubled man, hardly competent to play God with anybody’s life. But the sadder and more troubled they were, the more they yearned for omnipotence. The really troubled ones believed they had it.
— Ross MacDonald, 1962
From the book The Zebra-Striped Hearse
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