"...my conclusion directly contradicts the original idea I start from.
Starting from unlimited freedom, I conclude with unlimited despotism.
I will add, however, that apart from my solution to the social
formula, there is no other."
-- "Shigalyov" in Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky
(1871-1872). tr. Richard Pevear and Larissa
Volokhonsky
Marat: Why is everything so confused now
Everything I wrote or spoke
was considered and true
each argument was sound
And now
doubt
Why does everything sound false
-- Peter Weiss. The Persecution and Assassination of
Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton
Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964) tr. Geoffrey
Skelton verse adaptation by Adrian
Mitchell