" [W]here in the world did you get the ideathat the Lord wants the truth from us? It is a strange, a most orig-
inal, idea of yours, My Lord [Cardinal]. Why, he knows it already, and may even have found it a little bit dull. Truth is for tailors and shoemakers, My Lord. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades. Do you not yourself tell us, my lords spiritual, that our trials are really blessings in disguise? And so they are. I, too, have found them to be so, at midnight, at the hour when the mask falls. But at the same time nobody can deny that they have been dressed up by the hand of an unrivaled expert. The Lord himself—with your permission—seems
to me to have been masquerading pretty freely at the time when he took on flesh and dwelt amongst us.”
― The Deluge at Norderney "
― , Seven Gothic Tales
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![quote : [W]here in the world did you get the ideathat the Lord wants the truth from us? It is a strange, a most orig-<br />inal, idea of yours, My Lord [Cardinal]. Why, he knows it already, and may even have found it a little bit dull. Truth is for tailors and shoemakers, My Lord. I, on the contrary, have always held that the Lord has a penchant for masquerades. Do you not yourself tell us, my lords spiritual, that our trials are really blessings in disguise? And so they are. I, too, have found them to be so, at midnight, at the hour when the mask falls. But at the same time nobody can deny that they have been dressed up by the hand of an unrivaled expert. The Lord himself—with your permission—seems<br />to me to have been masquerading pretty freely at the time when he took on flesh and dwelt amongst us.”<br />― The Deluge at Norderney](/image/2845492.jpg)