"To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another."
"Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence."
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Source: William John Locke (2012). “Jaffery”, p.263, tredition
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