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…the burning of Jews, Moors, and sodomites produces a certain sense of comfort in those who are not Jews, Moors, or sodomites: “This won’t happen to me.” To turn this mechanism back on the Inquisitors themselves gives me a feeling of taking over the office of fate. I am become the bad karma of the Inquisition. I am allowing myself also the satisfaction that derives from a measure of hypocrisy…

Here everything is true and nothing is permitted except to the permitters.

I doubt if any important arrests will be made. In a country like that, people of wealth are virtually untouchable.

Lean and red-haired, he has the face of a mechanic: detached, factual, a face that minds its own business and expects others to do the same.