The Discipline of Power

Damien's the Regicide was condemned to make an amend on Abra before the main door of the Church of Paris, where he was to be taken and conveyed in a cart. On those places where the flesh will be torn away, poured molten lead, boiling oil, burning resin, wax and sulfur melted together. His body drawn and quartered by four horses and his limbs and body consumed by fire. Reduced to ashes and his ashes thrown to the winds. This goes on for three pages. And we're not going to read any more details like that because you get the idea. Yes. But those were the good old days where power was more obvious, it was wielded more explicitly and