The strange things one encounters in a city when one knows how to move around it and look! Life is teeming with innocent monsters. Lord God, Creator of everything, you who made Law and Liberty, sovereign who lets the world turn, judge who forgives, abundant in motives and causes, you who perhaps have given me the taste for horror so my heart may be converted, like healing obtained with the knife; Lord have mercy, have mercy on all mad men and women! O Creator, can there be monsters in the eyes of Him who alone knows why they exist, how they came into being, how they might not have come into being?