PART ONE
It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and
to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It
is as if we were speaking alone to no ears but our own. And we know well
that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone. We have
broken the laws. The laws say that men may not write unless the Council
of Vocations bid them so. May we be forgiven!
But this is not the only sin upon us. We have committed a greater
crime, and for this crime there is no name. What punishment awaits us if
it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory
of men and there are no laws to provide for it.