The quotations below are said to be  from a lost work of one Augustus Codex, once described by Fulcanelli the Alchemist as "the Imposter Magus of Grenoble." Codex, a Fortean metaphysician sworn to poverty, died in a Paris estaminet in 2007 whilst taking notes on Borges' story Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. It is said by many a heresiarch that he was the only man to solve the riddle behind the physicist Enrico Fermi's celebrated question "where are they?" by answering "the alien is under construction..."  Recently the Combat Diaries has acquired  material which suggests his death may have been faked. More on this as the situation develops.

"When we imagine we create a form of life"

"Like a Masturbating Nun, the Sceptic lives in Denial"

"Don't follow the money - follow the stage-fronts"

"As ritual murder, the scientific commercial break is the most spectacular weapon we will ever see"

"Like Hamlet, as soon the advertisements around you start talking about reality, reach for your sword"

"Mundane claims need Mundane Explanations"

“Winston Churchill said that there are lies, damn lies, and things call statistics. One might say that in Ufology there are thinkers, writers, and things called researchers. The first go mad, the second plod on, and the third are unreadable."

“I always prefer the fictions to the facts. They tell me a hell of a lot more”

"Don't kill Muslims - turn them into customers"

"America invented Pleasure, and has never been forgiven for it"

"In the old days we measured things, we read the time tables of the world, and we reached for the OFF switch. Entertainment State is a metaphysical fluid. There is no OFF switch. You don't even need a TV set."

Codex: I don't believe in demythologising myself

Interviewer: Why?

Codex: I'd have nothing left

"In order to get some sleep at night I don't use medicines, I use rationalisations. Inducing sleep is the only thing rationalisations are good for. They are plentiful, cheap, and far more effective. And when you wake up, they're gone!

"I would rather trust a scream from Britney Spears than a data-base from the trading class"