Historically, A Canadian Is An American Who

The Book Of Revelation, Difficult As It May Be For "literalists," Becomes Much Simpler When We Read It Typologically, As A Mosiac Of Allusions To Old Testament Prophecy.

Failure To Grasp Centrifugal Meaning Is Incomplete Reading; Failure To Grasp Centripetal Meaning Is Incompetent Reading.

The Supremacy Of The Verbal Over The Monumental Has Something About It Of The Supremacy Of Life Over Death.

Literally, The Bible Is A Gigantic Myth, A Narrative Extending Over The Whole Of Time From Creation To Apocalypse, Unified By A Body Of Recurring Imagery That "freezes" Into A Single Metaphor Cluster, The Metaphors All Being Identified With The Body Of The Messiah, The Man Who Is All Men, The Totality Logoi Who Is One Logos, The Grain Of Sand That Is The World.

Just As A New Scientific Discovery Manifests Something That Was Already Latent In The Order Of Nature, And At The Same Time Is Logically Related To The Total Structure Of The Existing Science, So The New Poem Manifests Something That Was Already Latent In The Order Of Words.