The king dead is a living god.

Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.

The language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.