[science Fiction Is] A Mode

No Human Society Is Too Primitive To Have Some Kind Of Literature. The Only Thing Is That Primitive Literature Hasn't Yet Become Distinguished From Other Aspects Of Life: It's Still Embedded In Religion, Magic And Social Ceremonies.

Man Creates What He Calls History As A Screen To Conceal The Workings Of The Apocalypse From Himself.

The Entire Bible, Viewed As A "divine Comedy," Is Contained Within A U-shaped Story Of This Sort, One In Which Man, As Explained, Loses The Tree And Water Of Life At The Beginning Of Genesis And Gets Them Back At The End Of Revelation.

Everything That Happens In The Old Testament Is A "type" Or Adumbration Of Something That Happens In The New Testament, And The Whole Subject Is Therefore Called Typology, Though It Is A Typology In A Special Sense.

We Find Rhetorical Situations Everywhere In Life, And Only Our Imaginations Can Get Us Out Of Them.