I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. I understood that, finally and absolutely, I alone exist. All the rest, I saw, is merely what pushes me, or what I push against, blindly--as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back.

-- (contact) © lorelei, january 27, 2012 / xx / shadow of the colossus doesn't belong to me, sadly.