I'm currently reading Black Ocean: Mirth & Mayhem and this meme nailed it

But all the good forbidden knowledge is in those books

You're never going to get power, limitless power if you're not even willing to read a few cursed tomes.

"I didn't think the souls of the damned would melt my face!"

My fraternal acolyte in the mystical arts. If thou didst not desire a curse unending ye should not have consorted with inscrutable powers from beyond! Smh my head 🤦‍♂️

I read this as magas be like 💀

Rincewind : I looked at the book that was bound in chains and locks on a dare, now I can't even learn any new spells, and I'll cast the most powerful spell when I die.

Meanwhile 77 million Americans really let the Djinni out of the bottle in November.

Maybe every story is Pandora's jar.