Any obsession seduces him, provided it smothers the demon of his curiosity and immobilizes his mind. Hence he envies all those who, by means of prayer or any other freak, have arrested the course of their thoughts, abdicated the responsibilities of the intellect and encountered, within a temple or a madhouse, the happiness of being through. What would he not give to be able to exult, like them, in the shadow of an error, in the shelter of a stupidity! He will try anything.
