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Once on a time I met another man of the roads. He too was a little mad, and thus spoke to me: "I am a wanderer. Oftentimes it seems that I walk the earth among pygmies. And because my head is seventy cubits farther from the earth than theirs, it creates higher and freer thoughts.
-"But in truth I walk not among men but above them, and all they can see of me is my footprints in their open fields.