●   ●   ●    while we struggled with the gigantic evil of his character, but failed to destroy it. 20 Identified in Kafka-esque fashion simply as K—, Kennedy finally emerged as an archetype of the hidden demonism in the world, a Lucifer figure foreshadowing the Rasputins, Streichers, and Duvaliers of the next century: The Nero of to-day, regaling himself through a mental method with the tortures of Christians, is repeating history, and will fall upon his own sword, and it shall pierce him through.