You can see the advantage, I’m sure. The more I accuse myself, the more I have the right to judge you. Better still: I incite you to judge yourself, which relieves me by that much more. My dear fellow, we are strange and miserable creatures and we have only to go back over our lives to find any number of opportunities to astonish and shock ourselves. Try it. You may be sure that I will listen to your own confession, with a great feeling of fraternity.
