Dean Koontz always find way out of the horror and when it's about silence he should be the first image.

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist

Our self image is based on people comments, so most images are false. You aren't this and this, they made you, because they wanted!

In this world only the paranoid survive.

The Protocol is simple
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Each thing is equation of God Complex as first
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As second "Sorry for all and everything".

The world to have a balance first it needs one liar and one guy who can discover who is lieing. That's called balance!