The sun shone with a brilliance that to such eyes as mine was a very mockery.

Thus would it shine on through centuries, and light many another unfortunate to the scaffold.

The very sky seemed pitiless in the intensity of its cobalt.

Unfeeling I deemed the note that everywhere was struck by man and Nature, so discordant was it with my gloomy outlook.

If you would have food for reflection upon the evanescent quality of life, upon the nothingness of man, upon the empty, heartless egoism implicit in human nature, get yourselves sentenced to death, and then look around you.