"What it offered was an entrée to amazement, to a shared and
tingling secret;
to splendours. But
there was an undercurrent of amusement too, as if you
were a fool for being
taken in by its voluptuousness; as if there were a cosmic
joke in the offing, a
simple, mysterious joke, like the jokes of children."
"In the ruined sanctuary, in the moonlight, he will find the
Queen of Heaven
and Earth and the Underworld lying in shattered white marble on
the floor.
He is the one who will sift
through the rubble, groping for the shape of the past.
He is the one who will say it has
meaning.
That too is a calling, that
also can be a fate."