To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!
the possession of power brings on madness.
Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.