Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 104 - Wherein Babbalanja broaches a diabolical Theory, and in his own Person proves it

In which a lively debate unfolds upon the nature of human vice and folly, as the sagacious Babbalanja expounds a subtle philosophy that all men are possessed by devils of various sorts, himself a willing subject of the theory. Yet when challenged and playfully constrained for his heterodox musings, the discourse turns to a more tangible display of those very devils in human behaviour, rendered with keen wit and gentle irony.