3 Quotes by Mattias Shaw-James

Everything, every move, was calculated, in a mathematical, inhuman fashion. That gave the phantasmal illusion of the incandescent characteristics of man.’ It brought me an immeasurable sense of pride, that I could deceive people so easily. It created an infinite sense of distance between us, as if we were in different dimensions. That only a minute fragment of my real self was present in my countenance, tone, and gestures.

I assumed a posture of stiff, genteel discomfort, with my hands splayed neatly over my keyboard. I set to work dutifully, listening to the melody of the tapping keys. I was not in the slightest dismayed by my deception, I had nothing else, just the biological carapace that facilitated my functions, and therefore my deception had become truth.

Even though I scoffed at the use of alcohol or recreational drugs as coping mechanisms for the pains of the world; in the David and Goliath battle of me against the globe, these pills are the armour that allow me to gallantly storm the ramparts of society.