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					We have villagers, including the deceased philosopher,
				
			 
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					Pinchas T, who in his only notable paper,
				
			 
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					To the Dust: From Man You Came and to Man You Shall Return, argues
				
			 
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					that it would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.
				
			 
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					We have the good gefilte-fish monger, Bitzl Bitzl R.
				
			 
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					We have the mad squire and village rapist, Sofiowka N.
				
			 
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					We have Harry V, the shtetl's master logician and
				
			 
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					resident pervert, who had been working for many years
				
			 
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					on his magnum opus, The Host of Hoists, which,
				
			 
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					he promised, contained the tightest of tight logical proofs that
				
			 
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					God indiscriminately loves
				
			 
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					the indiscriminate lover.