So then perhaps it is no poem, or at any rate not one for which any human being is responsible, nor yet mankind; ah, now I understand you, it was for this reason you called my procedure the most wretched act of
plagiarism, because I did not steal
from any individual, nor
from the race, but
from the God or, as it were, stole the God
away, and though I am only an individual man, aye, even a wretched thief, blasphemously pretended to be the God.