THE JESUIT
one of dire emergency. There is no other point from which to start
except an act of authority."
I left, and found myself back in the Roman streets and squares:
the Roman space, so generous, so free of compulsion, rejecting
nothing, asking nothing of the individual, except that he pick up a
disguise and play a role, forgetting himself in it. The cast is innum–
erable, the stage set once and for all. There is room for the Fanatic
on it, and for the Cynic. Only the real person is excluded: the heretic.
Or isn't he?
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