Charles de Coster. The legend of Eulenspiegel, and lamme Godsake, their valiant, funny and glorious deeds in Flanders and other lands (№ 448711)

Perhaps it seemed strange to you to imagine Wisdom in the form of a gloomy and ugly bird, a friend of darkness, which, as inaudibly as death itself, swoops in and kills. And yet you have something in common with me. Haven't there been hazy dawns in the life of each of you, with a dim beam illuminating the pavements, littered with the corpses of men, women, children? What is your policy based on since you rule the world? On massacre and slaughter.