The Pale Horse

🔖 There are two methods, it seems to me, of approaching this strange business of the Pale Horse. In spite of the dictum of the White King, it is difficult to achieve simplicity. One cannot, that is to say, "Begin at the beginning, go on to the end, and then stop." For where is the beginning? To a historian, that always is the difficulty. At what point in history does one particular portion of history begin. In this case, you can begin at the moment when Father Gorman set forth from his presbytery to visit a dying woman. Or you can start before that, on a certain evening in Chelsea. Perhaps, since I am writing the greater part of this narrative myself, it is there that I should begin.