think of the servants of wrath bowing down , praying to , venerating , adoring , not their god in the form of carleton lufteufel , but one of his victims : a worthless derelict , a drunken brain-scarred old drifter , a panhandler , a wino , a man -- a man who had never done anything to or for his fellows , a maimed human cipher who had never wielded power of any sort ; just a man , at his lowest .