The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

“But in Friendship, being free of all that, we think we have chosen our peers. I…”

“Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house tod…”

“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We…”

“When the subject is sacred, proud and clever men may come to think that the out…”