I would highly, highly recommend you listen to the audiobook version of it which you can find for free on YouTube. It’s absolutely beautiful.

I have a tendency to go back to it whenever I’m just doing chores around the house or working in the garage. It’s such a phenomenal experience that I have recommended it to many friends but I’m not sure anyone of them has given it a listen.

That line and, “The freedom of birds is an insult to me” has got to be two of the best lines ever written for a villain in any book ever made.

I do see the judge as the manifestation of Satan itself.