There are acts of such a delicate nature that you better destroy them through some rudeness to make them unrecognizable; there are deeds of love and of an extravagant generosity after which nothing is more advisable than to take a stick and beat up all eye witnesses: just to black out their memory. There are people who know how to black out their own memory, they mistreat it so as to take their revenge on the only witness of their deeds. Shame is ingenious. And it is not our worst acts for which we are most ashamed…