THE GALLOWS IN THE GARDEN

IN the garden of the great house they are building an immense gallows. The head of the great house, who wears a dark suit which he believes shows him to great advantage, defends the gallows’ size by saying that the executed will thus appear small in death. But his critics, whose taste in clothes can never match his, say that the huge gallows will only signify the importance of the hanged. Nonsense, explains the head of the great house, the gallows are more than the gallows and the hanged are less than the hanged. Anything else is unthinkable.