Why wait for a call when you have a command?

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.