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Diary of a Madman
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Only today do I realize that this world in which I have moved about for half a lifetime has been for over four thousand years a man-eating world. Brother was at the time of sister's death in charge of the affairs of the family. It is not at all impossible that he had mixed her flesh in the food and gave us to eat of it without our knowledge.

It is not at all impossible that I had myself eaten a few slices of my sister's flesh! And now it has come to be my turn . . .

Although I have a tradition of four thousand years of man-eating, I did not know till now how difficult it is to find a true and innocent man.

13.

Maybe there are still some infants that have not yet eaten men.

Save, save the infants . . .