{"id":4839,"date":"2010-01-22T01:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:07:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:07:56","slug":"into-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/01\/into-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Into the Abyss?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 17px;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4840\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/119.jpeg?resize=117%2C132\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/119.jpeg?w=117&amp;ssl=1 117w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/119.jpeg?resize=85%2C96&amp;ssl=1 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 117px) 100vw, 117px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In &#8216;The Question: The Five Books of Blood&#8217; by Greg Rucka, Renee Montoya, who takes on the persona of the masked yet faceless (vigilante&#8217;s) persona called &#8216;The Question&#8217;, hunts for the legendary &#8216;Crime Bible&#8217; to uncover its secrets, so as to better understand how criminal minds tick. But <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">in the process of knowing the nature of deceit, lust, greed and murder deeper, she stares into the proverbial Nietzschean\u00a0abyss and the abyss into her too<\/span>. Eventually unwittingly winning a crime cult leader in a duel, she becomes worshipped as the next default chief of his minions.<\/p>\n<p>The story is called &#8216;the parable of the faceless&#8217;. Defilements are really faceless &#8211; till we choose to embody them, to give human faces to them. Yet, one&#8217;s defilements are not always worn visibly on the face. Even &#8216;The Question&#8217;, who is &#8216;faceless&#8217;, had undetected and unmindfully masked defilements. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">One can fool others, but more frighteningly, one can fool oneself too.<\/span> Deceit indeed! (Will Renee turn to the dark side? The sequel will tell.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Who am I?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/01\/who-am-i \">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/01\/who-am-i <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8216;The Question: The Five Books of Blood&#8217; by Greg Rucka, Renee Montoya, who takes on the persona of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[154,89],"class_list":["post-4839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-defilements","tag-mindfulness","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}