Overshadows

“My standpoint is that we are creatures of a certain kind, with no indication that a radical change is imminent; and that the most pretentious of our present prophets is unable to do more than promise ‘an eternity of intoxication’ to those who follow him into less physical, more ‘cosmic’ regions; proposals made with at least equal eloquence by contemporaries of Plato.” - Wyndham Lewis, Time and Western Man, Book I, ch. XVI, p. 112.