Writers Don't Seem To Benefit

Horace, In A Particularly Boastful Mood, Once Said His Verse Would Last As Long As The Vestal Virgins Kept Going Up The Capitoline Hill To Worship At The Temple Of Jupiter. But Horace's Poetry Has Lasted Longer Than Jupiter's Religion, And Jupiter Himself Has Only Survived Because He Disappeared Into Literature.

The Tremendous Efficiency And Economy Of The Book Has Once Again Demonstrated Itself. It's The World's Most Patient Medium.

Those Who Do Succeed In Reading The Bible From Beginning To End Will Discover That At Least It Has A Beginning And An End, And Some Traces Of A Total Structure.

Writers Don't Seem To Benefit Much By The Advance Of Science, Although They Thrive On Superstitions Of All Kinds.

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.