Chapter 12

Sec. 1. Meaning of the term "execution." 36 Sec. 2. The first quality of execution is truth. 36 Sec. 3. The second, simplicity. 36 Sec. 4. The third, mystery. 37 Sec. 5. The fourth, inadequacy; and the fifth, decision. 37 Sec. 6. The sixth, velocity. 37 Sec. 7. Strangeness an illegitimate source of pleasure in execution. 37 Sec. 8. Yet even the legitimate sources of pleasure in execution are inconsistent with each other. 38 Sec. 9. And fondness for ideas of power leads to the adoption of the lowest. 39 Sec. 10. Therefore perilous. 40 Sec. 11. Recapitulation. 40