Out of the Corner of My Eye I think I caught a glimpse of truth out of the corner of my eye. A ghost, a whisper, a suspicion, a subtle and subversive rumor. So dangerous that every army would be commanded to march against it; so beautiful that it would drive those who see it to madness or sanity. Does the whole of my kind suffer from mental and moral vertigo? As Melville said of cabin boy Pip, he saw the foot of God upon the treadle of the loom and dared to speak it. Henceforth his shipmates called him mad. As Vladimir said when they came to bury Fyodor, the spiritual leader must feel the
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