What is knowledge?

Knowledge, they said, was power.   Power, they said, corrupt.   If both maxims are equally true could knowledge be a dangerous thing to the seekers of truth?  That was a question that was often debated by philosophers and theologians.    The entire concept of forbidden knowledge is based upon the idea that there were things in the cosmos that no man should know.    Yet what qualifies as forbidden knowledge?   Taboo ritual? The understanding of the profane?  Or is the only forbidden knowledge that which is dangerous to know?

The Akosh woman who did not get flung across the Golden Way and impaled on the banister of the Fiery Lion was seen wandering about the city today.   At first, he entered the Deadman's Knot where she seemed to meet up with some friends and then later she headed towards the Fiery Lion with those said acquaintances.  What happened was nothing out of the ordinary.   Yet at the same time there was a strange sort of tension about the woman.   While she never lost the confidence she always seemed to have she seemed to keep a careful eye on the shadows.

Why? Well, sometimes  its a bad idea to ask.   And other times, its a worse idea to know.