Nature Is Inside Art As Its Content,

Poetry Can Only Be Made Out Of Other Poems; Novels Out Of Other Novels.

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.

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.

This Story Of Loss And Regaining Of Identity Is, I Think, The Framework Of All Literature.

Every Human Society Possesses A Mythology Which Is Inherited, Transmitted And Diversified By Literature.