Chapter 71 Part Three Old and New List Fourteen

"All things are clean to him who is clean" - so say the people.But I say to you: "To a piggy, everything is piggy!" Thus the ghastly fantasists (with their hearts drooping), declare: "The world itself is a filthy monster." Because they are all impure minds; especially those recluses, unless they have seen the world from behind, there will be no peace or rest! I said in front of those people, although the voice was very unpleasant: the world has a backside just like people——this is very real! There's a lot of dirt in the world: it's real here!But the world itself is not thus a filthy monster; but there is much wisdom in that word, that the world stinks much: even the abomination has sprouted wings, and the power of imagination!

There are abominations in the best; the best is still a thing to be surpassed! O my brethren, there is much wisdom in that too, that there is much dirt in the world!