“Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He only asked to be ‘someone’, like everybody else. But he was too ugly! He had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and in the end he had to content himself with a cellar. Surely we may pity the Opera ghost!”
Epilogue- The Phantom Of The Opera
YES we can all pity Erik and we must…anyone who can’t pity him has no heart
Just because I can