Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez is an American author of the 2006 techno-thriller Daemon.
"The promise of eternal life is a threat unless you get to start over. The mythmakers knew that. They weren't dummies, man. ... They were the ones who invented rhyme and meter—the programming language for human memory in preliterary civilizations. It was a cultural checksum—a mnemonic device. You couldn't fuck with the code or the rhymes didn't work; and if the rhymes didn't work, people noticed. And so the knowledge of a people was passed down intact. It was a shamanic code. If you fucked with the code, then society lost its collective mind. Smell me?"
"Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities."
"...Christ figure is a recurring motif in many cultures; death and rebirth; symbolic turning of the seasons, all that crap. Wyle E. Coyote was a fucking Christ figure, man, and Acme Company was Rome, baby." A pause. "You can find it in Hindu legend, Sumerian mythology. Shit, you find it in modern folklore, like Rip van Winkle."