Despair, dismay, disorientation, and delusion: the four horsemen of the bureaucratic apocalypse are coming my way. - Charles Stross

Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence or overwork?" Alex asks, rising.
"Something like that. But there's a point at which sufficient incompetence is malice."

Of course, the trouble with following occult texts blindly is that there is no guarantee that the thing the ritual summons is what it says on the label."
"But they're Christians. If you want to get them to raise something from the dungeon dimensions, of course you tell them it's Jesus Christ. I mean, who else would they enthusiastically dive into necromantic demonology on behalf of?"

I wasn’t exaggerating the national suspicion toward strangers. It’s a survival trait on New Dresden; they’ve been breeding for paranoia for centuries.