Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Falling on their knees, they paid homage to him — the sustained abuse communicates the thorough degradation: striking on the crowned head, spitting on the robed figure, kneeling in mock homage. Each element is simultaneously a torment and a mockery. The homage they offer in jest is the truth they refuse to see.

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