How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
He wouldn't have seen any of the Old Ones: So many had died in the great cities [...] it was the machines and metal making them sick, killing them. (6.76)
Sad to know that as the world continues to develop, the old ways of magic will slowly die away. Is modernization really a good thing here?
Quote #5
The Boggy Mun had ruled the swamp since before our human time began. [...] He could be kind, he could be savage. He could kill with the swamp cough, and why not, when his water was stolen away? (7.38)
It can be hard to imagine a time before humans, technology, and modernization, but before all of that nature ruled. Boggy Mun and the swamp cough represent nature fighting back against human ways that threaten the very existence of the natural world. They're on team Mother Earth.
Quote #6
He says there's nothing to do when the cough gets bad, save for injections of strychnine to stimulate her heart. And morphine, of course, morphine at the end, to ease her passing. (9.87)
Instead of trying to cure her illness, the doctor has to resort to simply making her death less painful. Technology may be advancing, but nature can still win.