I do not need to remind you, Bruno wrote to Pascal Balmy and the others, that the annals of history are filled with descriptions of gifted and charismatic people who wanted to remake the world, special souls with second sight, natural leaders who burned clean and bright, and who brought the promise of their vision to the masses, but who gorged on joy until it wrecked them. Keep a list, Bruno wrote, of those who have been martyred to joy, lost to it. Do not be on that list.
