‘No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.’ (GP) ‘Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.’ (GP) In the same way, the man climbing out of your window in a stripy jumper, a mask and a great hurry might merely be lost on the way to a fancy-dress party, and the man in the wig and robes at the focus of the courtroom might only be a transvestite who wandered in out of the rain. …Mr Horsefry might well have been a kind, generous and pious man. There is a saying ‘You can’t fool an honest man’ which is much quoted by people who make a profitable living by fooling honest men. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged.
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