How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. Theembraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole. I only know that I was the cause of theirand downfall. Like a vile trichina, like a germ of the plague infecting whole kingdoms, so I contaminated all this , so happy and sinless before my coming. They learnt to lie, grew fond of lying, and discovered the charm of falsehood.

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