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the real horror seemed to lie in the fact that the faces beneath the masks were fiercely devoted to the inhumanity and coarseness of the masks

the figure of Lucie emerged to remind me that every attempt to right the wrongs done me had ended with my wronging others.

the figure of Lucie emerged to remind me that every attempt to right the wrongs done me had ended with my wronging others.

In reality, the opposite is true: everything will be forgotten and nothing will be redressed. The task of obtaining redress (by vengeance or by forgiveness) will be taken over by forgetting. No one will redress the wrongs that have been done, but all wrongs will be forgotten.

most people deceive themselves with a pair of faiths: they believe in eternal memory (of people, things, deeds, nations) and in redressibility (of deeds, mistakes, sins, wrongs). Both are false faiths.

the planet we inhabit is a borderland between heaven and hell. no act is of itself either good or bad. only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. even physical love, lucie, is not in itself either good or bad.

good

good

chapter 12

chapter 12