Christopher Fowler
Ten Second Staircase
Bryant & May #4
2006, EN
The wit of cheats, the courage of a whore,
Are what ten thousand envy and adore:
All, all look up, with reverential awe,
At crimes that ‘scape, or triumph o’er the law:
While truth, worth, wisdom, daily they decry –
“Nothing is sacred now but villainy.”
– Alexander Pope