The nudes of art are not so distant from pornography as prudish pedants pretend.
The beginning, middle, and end are parodied, reversed, and hidden by modernism, but not abandoned.
It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.
The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.
The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.
History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.