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The Wanting Seed Time Quotes

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Quote #10

High above Government Building the bronze robed figure with the baroque beard, baroque robe-folds, glared at the sun in this windless day, hair and clothes stirred by the baroque wind of the sculptor's fancy. Who was it? Augustine? Pelagius? Christ? Satan? [. . .] He would have to wait, they would all have to wait. But he was very nearly confident that the cycle would start again, that figure preach to the sun and sea-clouds about man's ability to organize the good life, his lack of need for grace, the godhead implicit in him. (6.3.20)

Good old statue of what's-his-name: always there to reinforce a point about cyclicality and time and yada yada yada when you need him!