I have seen the grotesque gallows-shape, which the little Roman gutter-boys scribbled on walls as a vulgar joke, blazing on the pinnacles of the temples of the world.

And shall I turn back ?" The King made no answer.
Adam went on, his voice ringing in the roof.
"This laughter with which men tyrannise is not the great power you think it.

Peter was crucified, and crucified head downwards.

What could be funnier than the idea of a respectable old Apostle upside down?
What could be more in the style of your modern humour?
But what was the good of it?
Upside down or right side up, Peter was Peter to mankind.

Upside down he stills hangs over Europe, and millions move and breathe only in the life of his Church." King Auberon got up absently.
"There is something in what you say," he said.