Dear Moses H,

Although you slept with a married woman, the same as Gersbach, I feel that his indiscretion was greatly worse than yours.  Clearly what you did to that poor sick man was awful either way, but it wasn't as bad.  You didn't know the man; although you met him once, he was generally an abstract, unreal thing to you.  It is easy to convince yourself a person doesn't exist when you never face him.  It's not like you spoke to him everyday, used him for job positions, pretended to help him, pretended to sympathize with him, pretended to love him.  It's not like you were his best friend, as Gersbach claimed he was to you.  If Gersbach truly loved you, truly cared for you, he could never have done what he did.  Even if he truly believed you were insane, he should never have betrayed you so viciously and easily.  Gersbach is not a man, he is a fiery monster who feeds on the trust and respect of intelligent men, of worthy men.  He is a "beast of waste and desolation."