Russell's paradox

paradox

could stand over the propositions of logic like a monument with a Janus head.

Recast in definition form from: “… itself would stand like a monument (with a Janus head) …”

disquiets not as a contradiction but as a cancerous growth, sprouting aimlessly and senselessly from the normal body.

Recast in definition form from: “… cancerous growth, seeming to have grown out of the normal …”