Ah, blow it out your dickhole

Wow, he really did crib from Madame Grés. Not complaining, mind you - her shizz is exquisite.

My interpretation (though this may be coloured by the fact that I haven’t re-read the trilogy since it was released... but since I’m going on holiday soon I may have to correct that) was that the thing, whatever it was/is, wasn’t so much extra-terrestrial in origin, but extra-dimensional... which is why it’s having…