He didn’t believe that a nun was something holy—the servants’ faith did not recognize holiness in human beings. They didn’t care for Jesus. Flesh was mortal. God was not. God was not alive. God was life itself. And life was invisible. This was why Clod felt he had to make art, to give proof of life. Clod knew as well as the other servants that Villiam was a sinner, the priest a heretic. But a person should never judge someone else’s faith. Nobody knows the truth.
