But then the words came back to him. For in those days, the Lord God had suffered the wise men to know the means by which the world itself might be destroyed … He also suffered them to know how it might be saved, and, as always, let them choose for themselves. And perhaps they had chosen as Thon Taddeo chooses. To wash their hands before the multitude. Look you to it. Lest they themselves be crucified. And they had been crucified anyhow. Without dignity. Always for anybody anyhow is to get nailed on it and hang on it and if you drop off they beat … There was sudden silence. The scholar had
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