How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
And in the awful heavy silence of the house, as he sat impotently on his bed with his face in his hands, he heard the high, sweet, evil laugh of a child—
—and then the sucking sounds. (7.215)
Danny Glick slipping through the window is pretty much the embodiment of evil. He's innocence totally corrupted.
Quote #5
"The devil, according to the Gospel According to Freud, would be a gigantic composite id, the subconscious of us all."
"Surely a more stupendous concept than red-tailed boogies or demons with such sensitive noses that they can be banished with one good fart from a constipated churchman," Matt said.
"Stupendous, of course. But impersonal. Merciless. Untouchable. Banishing Freud's devil is as impossible as Shylock's bargain—to extract a pound of flesh without spilling a drop of blood. The Catholic Church has been forced to reinterpret its whole approach to evil… It is in the process of shedding its old medicine-man skin and re-emerging as a socially active, socially conscious body…."
Matt said deliberately, "and you hate it don't you?" (13.82-13.87)
Callahan wants the big Evil to fight, in part because those little evils are so tricky. Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, thinks evil is inside everyone, Callahan says, and so you can't really fight it. In part the vampires refute that: they're clearly evil, through and through. In part, though, they seem to confirm Freud, since the vampires can be seen as just the evil of the townspeople made manifest.
Quote #6
"In the name of God the Father!" he cried, and his voice took on a hoarse, commanding note that made them all draw closer to him. I command the evil to be gone from this house! Spirits, depart!"…
There was a flash of light… The new Yale lock lay on the boards at their feet, welded into an almost unrecognizable mess…
Callahan withdrew from the door, trembling. He looked down at the cross in his hand. "This is, without a doubt, the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me in my life," he said. (14.243-244)
Faced with the unholy Marsten House, Callahan calls down the power of goodness (or of the White, as Barlow puts it). What that power is, exactly, is somewhat unclear. Is it God? The specifically Catholic God? Or what? Does blowing off the Yale lock mean that the Church is the one true church, and a force for goodness? Or is the Church just a kind of superpower? (See "Symbols: The Cross" for more.)