Johnny can't really blame him being curious. Curiosity here is dangerous, though, Seth can't understand how dangerous. Johnny has to give him just enough to never want to look again, and nothing more.

"I didn't write it," he says. "I added to it." He gestures to the page Seth had given him. "But mostly it was someone else's. He died, I found it, I finished it. It got into my head and it drove me crazy, and that's all." He's still pawing through more pages but he doesn't quite have the initiative to destroy them anymore. He's getting tired. Feeling weak and helpless.

"It's dangerous," he murmurs. "I don't want anyone else to get hurt by it."