That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts | but no such thing as a truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a | composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were the | truths and they were all beautiful. |  | ... |  | It was the truths that made the people grotesques. The old man had quite an | elaborate theory concerning the matter. It was his notion that the moment one | of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried | to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became | a falsehood. |  |