»No, not quite, God is merciful, when he decides to be. There are enough human beings that closed themselves against the love for the truth, being supposed to save them. And for this cause, God sends them strong delusion, that they believe a lie. They love the illusiveness and self-deception. God knows the hearts of people and who hardens his heart, well. As in water, a face reflects the face, so the heart of a person reflects the person.«

  »But why does God allow bad incidents?«

  »Why do human beings do not follow God’s laws and constantly nibbles forbidden fruit and still believe to escape unpunishable? Why does God allow bad incidents? With this question, you place the creator on the dock. God is not obliged to give account to any human. To no one. It’s exactly the other way round. On judgment day, man is obliged to give an account of his life. About every single word, that left his mouth. And about every word, that...«

  »I know what you are aiming at. Of course alike for every written word. You did say that books are something very dangerous. And when, according to your very opinion, can a book be classified to be good? Now here, obviously, opinions do vary.«

  »It doesn’t depend on a book being sold a million times. Listen, a good friend of mine wrote the following poem for his friend Linda, a teacher.«

  He pulls a sheet of paper from the Detective Rat book that he had put aside, which served as a bookmark, and reads aloud.