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T '..e recognise the speech of the gocis" (pp.47-£). Ihe whole stuc y
is interspersed v/ith images of ^,ro:.th and m, turing, ts ov/inburne
sets out to follow a chronology .;hich transcends dates:
It is not, so to speak, the literal but the
Spiritual order ,.:hich I h; ve studied to
observe and to ind cate: the periods hich I
seek to define belong not to chronology but
to art.
(p.16)
ihis is redly no more than ?n excuse for making points
dependent upon chronology, ithout worrying about dttes:
S'./i^bi.riie rnari'.s the epochs in his chronicle b.y dis^l^ys of
language more resplendent tiu n his apoctly^tic norn. For
example, c.r lore's influence upon the early ./ork ~'i Jhcikospcie.ro
is ti-eated f.y follows:
In the i^eaven of our tragic song the firstborn
stc r on the forehead of its herald ^,00.
was not outshone till the full mi usurper
r.ierici.. u of that ^rotter gocheaci before -,;hon
he was sent to prepare y p£ thv;^-y for the sun.
ip.77)
oi:inburne f s meteorolo y \-oulc! h- ve tione ci-edit to the Book
of Re ve Ic tions.
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