Among the quotes I like to pluck for inclusion into my magnum opus are those concerning monstrosities committed by the human species. There are quite a few of them, but my favorite quote comes from Roman times (“No Precedent,” January 10, 2010). Next in line is from the Middle Ages (“The Use of Terror in the West,” May 18, 2006). Last quote from the top of the list comes from the Catholic Church in the Renaissance (“Pope John XXIII,” January 22, 1995). Again, these are but a few gems from my collection. The beauty of quotes such as these is that they have nothing to do with me or my possible prejudices. They come straight from authors of great renown across many a century and a few millennia. And they cannot be easily disputed, either. The human species abounds with monsters of all descriptions, but every single one of them is human and nothing but human. Human from head to toe, as it were. It is good to remember that there is no beast on earth that can compare with humans when it comes to monstrosities, some of which boggle the mind (“Hoc maxime verum est,” November 1, 2014). Thus I will keep plucking quotes of this ilk till my last breath. By and by, my Residua will become a repository of human horrors to reckon with. Survivors beware.

In memory of Jeffrey Edward Epstein