I found that while we are waiting for our masters and their canes, we ought, like Copernicus, to invert the argument if we are to triumph. Since one could not condemn others without at the same time judging oneself, one should heap accusations on one’s own head, in order to have the right to judge others. Since every judge eventually becomes a penitent, one had to take the opposite route and be a professional penitent in order to become a judge.
