Gerald now felt quite comfortable through having listened so respectfully to his own relentless logic.
“For these reasons, O foolish painting of the Two Truths, I deny your fleshly significance. Whether I happen to be a sun god or a Savior or a culture hero or just another bull-headed Musgrave, I deny that you present to me any truth whatever. I snap my fingers at your materialism; I turn up my nose at your indecorous anatomical studies; and I send the divine foot of the Lord of the Third Truth smashing through your ancient canvas. These things I do to proclaim the majesty of the Third Truth. And I depart from this Peter and this Peter’s Tomb, to seek my appointed kingdom.”
It was in this way that Gerald yet again put an affront upon Koleos Koleros and upon the Holy Nose of Lytreia.
PART SIX
THE BOOK OF TUROINE
“Weathercocks Turn more Easily
when Placed very High.”