“The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”

Check Umberto Eco’s On Ugliness and you’ll learn that the monster historically was taken as a sign of the divine, an instance of God or the gods intervening in the world, exercising their prerogative to mold creation as they saw fit.
— John Langan, “Scandalous Monsters”