1794

"Jesus", says Caspar, "I have not been entirely accurate or truthful." "How can you be truthful about anything, my dear, when your progenitor happens to be the father of all lies? But now your redemption has already begun." "I was an adolescent when the king David brought me to his bed with him, and many times I lay there with him. But there were whisperings in the palace, and he banished me with a tutor to the Negev Desert, where I fell asleep in an oasis. Then, when I woke some years after, a caravan abducted me and carried me to India, where I also tempted the Buddha and his servant, though neither lay with me, then I slept again until I woke in the bed of the pharisee..."