I’ve had the last two movements of Hector  Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique on heavy replay these past few days, thinking not of the story Berlioz was telling, but imagining a certain fictional kidnapper and murderer getting his comeuppance for fictionally kidnapping and murdering a fictional 13 year old boy. I really should not have re-read parts of that story I threw across the room and tore to shreds back in the day, but I wanted to get some of the details in my alternative version of it correct. It’s been bothering me ever since.

“In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.”  -Mary Renault

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” -Mahatma Gandhi