Because of it, a few short weeks hence, I shall be led from this cell to a high place with unstable flooring, graced above by a well-stretched rope; and there they will hang me by the neck until I am dead.

The red wrath always has undone me in all my lives; for the red wrath is my disastrous catastrophic heritage from the time of the slimy things ere the world was prime.
* * * * * It is time that I introduce myself.

I am neither fool nor lunatic.

I want you to know that, in order that you will believe the things I shall tell you.

I am Darrell Standing.