was inside but there was a trend toward vision brought me outside ... a line outside the theater decades long ... a trend outside the truth painfully wide and foolishly pointed ... an alliance between sight and touch that we'd have one but not the other ... nor taste nor smell the old sentinels at the gate ... not one of them figured it out ... but hearing did ... no not at first of course ... at first there was just a big bang ... but later after music and conversation ... didn't so much figure it out as it was laid out line by line and then word by word ... till sight came back to watch ... touch paused to consider ... and the sentries went back to their posts ... there were colors profound but this was something else ... and music of course and warm winds and cool breezes but this was something else ... here what was said and everything changed ... all the learning and all the practice that these words might be said ... and before them already beyond its time and place something old but never anything this new ... (c)
cf kreeft jesus shock pp 126-7
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