“Brae, your Cousin proceeds unerringly to the Despair at the Core of History,- and the Hope. As Savages commemorate thier great Hunts with Dancing, so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ, and how we have far’d If it is undeinably so that he rose from the Dead, then the Event is taken into History, and History is redeem’d from the service of Darkness,- with allthe secular Consequences, flowing from that one Event, design’d and will’d to occur.”

“Including ev’ry Crusade, Inquisition, Sectarian War, the millions of lives, the seas of blood,” comments Ethelmer. “What happen’d? He liked it so much being dead that He couldn’t wait to come back and share it with ev’rybody else?”

Thomas Pynchon - Mason & Dixon